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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth, Sleep, Errors

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Success, Men, Discipline

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Philosophy, History

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Light, Sound, Heavenly

The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Past, World, Daring

One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Loses

Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Looks, Half, Flattery

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Freedom, Giving, Mastery

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beautiful, Different, Thousand

Where there are no women there are no good manners

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good Man, Manners, Good Manners

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.

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

Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Appreciation, Tolerance, Mood

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Deceived Us, Deceiving, Deceived
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1932). “Goethe's poems and aphorisms”

I will be lord over myself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lord
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1902). “Life of J.W. von Goethe, by G. H. Lewes”

I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hate, Party, Deceit
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness, Character, Men

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Two, Feelings

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Attitude, Men, Mirrors
"Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 39, 1998.

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beauty, Appreciate, Impossible

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Moving, Heart, Sleep

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hate, People, Politics
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.100

We are our own aptest deceiver.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Deceit, Deceiver

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Eye, Difficult, Simplest

Collectors are happy people.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People, Happy People, Collectors

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beautiful, Treasure, Fragile
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2000). “Selected Works: Including The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Italian Journey, Faust”, Everyman's Library

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