Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

(498 votes)   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
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(480 votes)   Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(471 votes)   Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.''

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(467 votes)   For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(452 votes)   All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(430 votes)   What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(413 votes)   Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(398 votes)   The coward threatens when he is safe.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(395 votes)   Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(380 votes)   Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(353 votes)   Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(352 votes)   He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(347 votes)   He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(323 votes)   We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(322 votes)   The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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