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Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Kindness, Together, Golden

Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Surprise, Christ, Lord
"Venetian Epigrams". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Jerome Rothenberg, 1790.

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Marriage, Husband, Wife

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thinking, Trying, Know Yourself

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Thanksgiving, Blessed

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Judging, Doe, Judgment

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.296, Princeton University Press

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character, World, Quiet

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Life, Trust

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Life, Time

It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Reflection, Desire, Example

The solution of every problem is another problem

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Math, Logic, Problem

If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wise, Questions And Answers, Want

Man must strive, and striving he must err.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Strive
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1973). “Faust”, p.14, Penguin UK

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Infinite, Moments, Hours

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Encouragement, Persistence

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
History, Promise, Sincere
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (19??). “Gleams From..: Being Passages Selected and Translated from the Prose Writings of Goethe and from His Converstaions with Eckermann”

Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth, Lying, School

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beauty, Beautiful, Art

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspiration, Reality, People

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Honesty, Deception

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Friendship, Friends, Danger

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People, Belief, Opinion

Precaution is better than cure.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Safety, Cures, Precaution

Beware of a man of one book.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wise, Book, Men

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