Continued Insights from Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture"

"The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part"

"The little man is still a man"

"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age"

"Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends"

"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them"

"A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait"

"A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude"

"A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss"

"A clever man commits no minor blunders"

"First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth"

"Every step of life shows much caution is required"

"Every spoken word arouses our self-will"

"Common sense is the genius of humanity"

"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do"

"Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world"

"Character develops itself in the stream of life"

"Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality"

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing"

"Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever"

"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent"

"Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it"

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live"

"An unused life is an early death"

"All things are only transitory"

"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green"

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men"

"What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together"

"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again"

"A useless life is an early death"

"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution"

"If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy"

"Life is the childhood of our immortality"

"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth"

"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods"

"Trust yourself, then you will know how to live"

"There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior"

"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace"

"He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm"

"Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?"

"The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross"

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do"

"Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will"

"The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life"

"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality"

"If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different"

"Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate"

"Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done"

"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public"

"Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens"

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