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Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.

Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Preparation, Life Is

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Roots, Long

Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly; telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Holy, Should

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Beautiful, Flower

I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Believe, Evil, Triumph
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.73, Ravenio Books

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rights, May, Chance

The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Eye, Light, Color

For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Failing, Found, Right Time

Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Law, Giving, Mastery

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Friends, Faults, Individual

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Country, Standards, Knows

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ignorance, Errors, Faults

Over all the mountain tops is peace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Peace, Mountain, Mountain Top
'Wanderers Nachtlied' (1821)

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time, Philosophy, Rights

One must keep repeating the Truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth

Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Human Life, Humans

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness, Joy, Lasts
"Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, IV. 5. 9, April 6, 1779.

Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dream, Minutes, Can Do
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Anster, Harry Clarke (2013). “Faust”, p.27, Courier Corporation

True happiness springs from moderation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Spring, True Happiness, Moderation
"Die Naturliche Tochter". II. 5. 79, 1803.

Colour itself is a degree of darkness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Darkness, Degrees, Colour
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1840). “Theory of Colours”, p.31

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
World, May, Concern

Our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Garden, Balls
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.24

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science, Men, Healthy

The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Past, Media, Soul
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.114, Univ of California Press

To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mean, Sunday, Church
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.362, Ravenio Books

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