Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

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

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

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

It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually only amuses himself or makes sport of us, as, for instance, the naturalist or historian. But a single action or event is interesting, not because it is explainable, but because it is true.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

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