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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dog, Glasses, Broken

We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perfection, Contentment, Quality

All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature, Travel, Water

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Family, Inspiring, Children

Sceptics are yet the most credulous.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Skepticism, Sceptic

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Friendship, Marriage

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Integrity, Mirrors, Hypocrisy

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dream, Passion, May
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.276

Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wise, Unity, Guides

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Motivational, Thinking

What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wise, Maturity, Names

No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Two, Views, Giving

To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Couple, Young, Love Each Other

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Thinking, He Man
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3527, Delphi Classics

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rainbow, Lasts, Hours

Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fear, Work, Yesterday

The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thinking, Strange, Fantasy

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Learning, Literature, Knows

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Funny, Humorous, Math

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Clever, Intelligent, People

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People, Aptitude, Originality

Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Solitude, Fine, Definite

He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hero, Order, Needs

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Real, New Friendship, Doe
"Torquato Tasso". I. 3. 68, 1790.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Solitude, Dangerous
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.42, Princeton University Press

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