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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it.. but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)