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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Funny, Sarcastic, Book

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Wish, Desire
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.59, Penguin UK

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Motivational, Romantic

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Past, History, Destroyed
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W. B. Rönnfeldt (1898*). “Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims”

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Philosophy, Medicine, Cost
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.1987, Delphi Classics

I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Pain, Hate, Giving
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.18, BookCaps Study Guides

Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Simple, Errors, Demand
"Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 310, 1998.

Colors are light's suffering and joy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Light, Color, Joy

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Men, Should Have
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Destiny, Men, Suffering
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.45, 谷月社

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Appreciation, Attitude, Tolerance
"It will take more than tolerance to protect human rights" by Daniel Barenboim, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016.

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Age, Toil

Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight oil. On books and papers as I read, My friend, your mournful light you shed. If only I could flee this den And walk the mountain-tops again, Through moonlit meadows make my way, In mountain caves with spirits play - Released from learning's musty cell, Your healing dew would make me well!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sweet, Book, Healing
"The Essential Goethe".

It will be! the mass is working clearer! Conviction gathers, truer, nearer! The mystery which for Man in Nature lies We dare to test, by knowledge led; And that which she was wont to organize We crystallize, instead.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lying, Hard Work, Knowledge
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1912). “Faust”

The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hard Work, Science, Night
Luke Howard, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1976). “Luke Howard (1772-1864): His Correspondence with Goethe and His Continental Journey of 1816”

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science, Men, Doubt
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.236, Ravenio Books

After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rainbow, Fifteen, Looks

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, World, Method
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W. B. Rönnfeldt (1898*). “Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims”

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

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

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Two, Literature

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Philosopher, Middle, Stations

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thinking, Sick, Literature

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Passion, Heart, Poetry
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Funny, Birthday, Meaningful
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.817, Delphi Classics

What matters in art is not thinking but making.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Thinking, What Matters

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