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Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Believe, Men, Conceit

No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Giving, Feelings, Mediocrity

The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Corn, Imagine, Mills

As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dwelling, Perfect, Judging

What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Light, Guidance, Spontaneous
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Country, Study, Language
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mistake, Women, Serious

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Intelligent, Intelligence, Minorities

On every mountain height is rest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mountain, Height

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Intelligence, Phrases

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Destiny, Violence, Attention
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.12, Courier Corporation

With knowledge grows doubt.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Doubt, Grows
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.88, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Science And Religion, Wells

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lying, Plot, Needs
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Marcelle Clements (2013). “The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings”, p.60, Penguin

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science, Moon, Mercury
"Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources" by James Wood, p. 166, 1893.

Mastery is often taken for egotism.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Taken, Mastery, Masters

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Long, Desire, Plunge

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Home, Black And White, Comfort
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Daniel Falk, Friedrich von Müller (1833). “Characteristics of Goethe: From the German of Falk, Von Müller, &c., with Notes, Original and Translated, Illustrative of German Literature”, p.246

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dazzle, Spirit, Moments
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Faust”, p.14, Sheba Blake Publishing

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Power, Men

Power is neither male nor female.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Power, Males, Female

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Animal, Worry, Thanks
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hate, Rebellion, Violent
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.147, Ravenio Books

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Genius, Mediocrity, Immortal
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.111, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature, Names, Form

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