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Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
We who didn’t inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world’s culture (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn’t perceive such things outside of us (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
The eye doesn’t see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
If one doesn’t know one’s own country, one doesn’t have standards for foreign countries (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become? (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
One needs only to get old to become milder; I don’t see anyone make a mistake I hadn’t also made (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody’s wish (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
It doesn’t behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
If we could do away with death, we wouldn’t object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)