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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowledge, Men, Self
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.1891, Delphi Classics

However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time, Book, Exercise

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People, Answers, Ifs
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.5, e-artnow

Patriotism ruins history.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Honesty, Patriotism, Ruins
Conversation with Friedrich Wilhem Riemer, July 1817.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Should Have, Childhood
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Oxenford (2013). “The Auto-Biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Memorial, Literature, Letters

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fall, Men, Silence
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.53

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hands, Able, Palaces
Letter to Johann Kaspar Lavatar, March 06, 1780.

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wise, Wish, Answers

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perseverance, Men, Strive

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Giving, And Love
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Light, Shadow

Manners form the great charm of women.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Manners, Charm, Form

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Winning, Liberty, Deserve

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hope, Soul, Unhappy
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3536, Delphi Classics

The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Clever, Reading, Reality

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Power, Thinking, Focus

Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Attitude, Heart, Winning

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowledge, Men, Doe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.68, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beauty, Art, Principles
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Jesus, Men, Names
"Goethe: Five Studies". Book by Albert Schweizer, p. 53, 1961.

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature, Taken, Science

How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Giving, Tests, Serious
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “The Essential Goethe”, p.250, Princeton University Press

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship
"My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beautiful, Flower, Garden
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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