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Famous Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
“The world remains ever the same.”
“Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.”
“Age merely shows what children we remain.”
“Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.”
“To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.”
“What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.”
“I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.”
“The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.”
“To create something you must be something.”
“A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.”
“He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.”
“Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.”
“The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.”
“To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.”
“Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.”
“Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.”