Tag: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe