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With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Oratory, Littles
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (2013). “Faust”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Garden, Silence, Here And There
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.493, Delphi Classics

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Book, Believe, Heart
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Literature, Steps, Caution
"The Miracle of Self-Love: The Secret Key to Open All Doors". Book by Barbel Mohr, Manfred Mohr (p. 115), 2012.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ignorance, Heart, Desire
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.46, e-artnow

Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is just two times two, and that is what we call four for short. But four is nothing new at all. And thus it goes on and on in its conclusions, except that in the higher formulas the identity fades out of sight.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Math, Two, Sight

To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Encouragement, Smoking, Want

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Doe, Judgment, Deceiving

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Song, World, Saddened

The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness, Cheerful, Social

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science, Technology, Mind

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Be You

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Crazy, Errors, Long
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.74

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Science, Technology

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Success, War, Suffering

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gratitude, Thinking, Debt
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2005). “Elective Affinities”, p.225, Penguin UK

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature, Artist, Slave
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.242, Ravenio Books

One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Vain
"Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 3, 1786.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Teacher, Teaching, Scholar

Let there be truth between us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth, Truth Is

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thank God, Thankfulness, Release

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Adults, Literature

One must be something, in order to do something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Order
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.324, Ravenio Books

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Father, Inheritance
"Faust". Act I, scene i, 1808.

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Littles, Fool, Poor
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.32, e-artnow

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