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Quotations by author » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832
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The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable
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The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
Conscience
The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
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The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Happiness
The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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The people rate strength before everything.
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The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
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The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Talent
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
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The phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence
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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
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The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal
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The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear
Wishes
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