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Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hypocrite, Goal, Purpose

Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Driven, Method, Empiricism

Let us live, while we are alive!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Alive

Life's objective is life itself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Objectives

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness, Perfect, Way

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heirs, Estates
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1842). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.35

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Should, Anxious, Mankind

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others

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Remedy, Superiority

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

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Real, Men, Rome
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.90, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Memories, Interest, Loses
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.84, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

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Religious, Art, Kind

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Drawing, Way, Painting

A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

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

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Reverence, Fathom, Unfathomable

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Temptation, Virtue, Absence

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

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Half, Harps, One Half

Mastery passes often for egotism.

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Mastery, Egotism

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

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Literature, Facts, Shows

Love can do much, but duty more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Duty, Can Do

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time, Good Life, Insperational
"Goethe's Art of Living".

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Spring, Heart

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Birthday, Science, Age

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gratitude, Men, Mind

Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.

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Self, Want, Woe
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1985). “Faust/Bilingual”, Bantam Classics

If you don't feel it, you'll never achieve it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Feels, Ifs
"Fairest Faust: A New Translation of Goethe's Faust".

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