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There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Men, World
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Goethe's Elective Affinities”, p.202

Giving is the business of the rich.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Generosity, Giving, Rich

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Thinking, Agreement

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth, Eye, Trying

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Together, Results
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Hans Kohn (1964). “Conversations with Goethe”, Not Avail

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Evil, Faust

All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Luck, Threshold, Delightful

What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Government, Teach, Dies

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Country, Gratitude, Home

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Self, Action, Contemplation

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Garden, Religion, Want

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God, Men, Odd

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Peace, Men

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Flow, Influence, Music Is

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Judging, Privilege
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.32, 谷月社

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Two, Giving, Weakness

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mistake, People, Wish
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.85, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hate, Hatred, Degrees
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (1949). “Words of Goethe: being the conversations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Exercise, Men, Silence

When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Limits, Satisfaction, Inquiring
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.7, e-artnow

Writing is busy idleness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Writing, Busy, Idleness
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles E. Passage (1980). “Goethe's plays”, Frederick Ungar

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ideas

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Learning, Understanding
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.160, Ravenio Books

Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Israel, People, Goal

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Addresses, Remedy

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