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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Equality, Equal
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.8, Princeton University Press

To act is easy; to think is hard.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thinking, Easy, Hard
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

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Men, Self, Agriculture
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.795, Delphi Classics

The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rain, Evil, Enemy
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.191, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

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Mistake, Lying

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Two, Perception
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.5, Univ of California Press

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Method, Earnestness
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thinking, People, Advice
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.39, Ravenio Books

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Winning, Trying, Bait
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

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Song, Eternal

Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell; Storm or sunshine , guard it well.

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Sunshine, Storm, Haste

Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ideas, Ends, Shrinks
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.70, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Winning, Fly Away, Method

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.

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Reflection, Men, World
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age, Youth, Fortune

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Education, People, Should

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dream, Imagination, Swim
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.7, e-artnow

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

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Children, Thoughtful, Thinking

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

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Inspiration, Thinking, Analysis

For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

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Sex, Butterfly, Sacrifice

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Religious, Reality, Tolerance
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1897). “Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction”

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Family, Men, Names

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Eye, Color, Perception

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Independent, Independence, Needs

If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beautiful, Moments, Miscellaneous

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