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All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.

All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Spiritual

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, May, Path

When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Praise, Equal

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wise, Stupid, Thinking
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 787-90, Faust, II, 2, 1, 1922.

Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Writing, Science, Men

Action has magic, grace and power in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Grace, Magic, Acting

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowledge, Age, Poison
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.93, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Strong, Temptation, Want

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
Wisdom, Teacher, Memories
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.175, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Enemy, Attention, Merit
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.136, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Inspiring, Philosophy
"'Das Märchen' ('The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily')". Story by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1795. Translated by Thomas Carlyle, 1832, wn.rsarchive.org.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Language, Foreign Language, Knows

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Genius, Lasts, Firsts

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Shells, Statistics, Kernel
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1957). “Poems of Goethe: a sequel to Goethe, the lyrist”

Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dancing, Mystery, Partners

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Long, Understanding, Misunderstood

There is no patriotic art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Patriotic
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Trying, Love One Another

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Motivational, Writing, Men
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.95, Ravenio Books

Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Problem, Solutions

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Religion, Want
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.76

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lying, Ideas, Originality

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Practice, Needs

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Faults, Virtue

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