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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stupidity, Reason, Humans

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Relationship, Honesty, Yoga

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Running, Discovery, Self

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wickedness, World, Neglect
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2011). “The Sorrows of Young Werther (少年維特的煩惱)”, p.13, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Self, Firsts, Favourite

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

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

If you want to make life easy, make it hard.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Motivational, Positive

Do not hurry; do not rest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Marriage, Husband, Wife

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Deceiving, Deceived, Oneself

The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beautiful, Understanding, Grows

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Caring, Individuality, Faults
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.761, Delphi Classics

Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Change, Yesterday, Today

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Keeping Secrets, Wish, Kept Secrets

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Godly, Childhood

Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Confused, Men, Suffering

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Flower, Honey, Bees

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hands, Haste, Littles

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Purpose, Literature

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Taken, Sky, Tree
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Parke Godwin (1872). “The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry, from My Own Life”, p.388

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Consistency, Wavering

We see only what we know.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science, Belief, Knows
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.7, Univ of California Press

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Writing, History, Sin
"Mitteilungen ueber GoetheBo". Book by Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer, II. 9, 1810.

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Believe, Cake
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.32, Penguin UK

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Life, Marriage

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