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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!

Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sometimes, Knows

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, World, Finest
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.69, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Too Much, Should

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Education, Learning, Study
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.78, Ravenio Books

Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Agriculture, Golden, Covered
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “The Poems of Goethe”, p.345

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Church, Digestion, Ill
BookCaps, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.250, BookCaps Study Guides

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Errors, Rational

Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faith, Children, Miracle
BookCaps, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.58, BookCaps Study Guides

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mistake, Long, People

Noble be man, helpful and good!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Luxury, Noble
"Das Gottliche" (1783)

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Eye, Light, Doe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Theory of Colours”, p.14, Courier Corporation

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Speak, Praise, Speakers

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wise, Lying, Half

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Learning, Men, Trying
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3588, Delphi Classics

The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Taken, Men, Grieving
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1893). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.32, Library of Alexandria

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth, Clever, Believe

I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mean, Decision, Wish
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.461, Delphi Classics

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Kings, Cases, Chiefs
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.33, 谷月社

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music, Strikes, Familiar

A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Patience, Encouragement, Wrinkles

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lying, Men, Political
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Relationship, Way, Should

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science, Keeping Secrets, Boredom
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1966). “Conversations and encounters”

The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Christian, Soul, Worship

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Teacher, Great Teacher

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