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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Running, Discovery, Self

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Running, Giving, Receiving

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Success, Running
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.65

The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Running, Men, Wish
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.19, 谷月社

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Running, Anxiety, Together
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Elective Affinities: A Novel”, p.173

The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Running, Believe, Wheat

Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beautiful, Running, Looks
"Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 246, 1998.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness, Running, Laughter

Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Running, Personal Qualities, Vanity
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.134, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Running, Equality, Long

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beautiful, Running, Art

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Running, Simple, Men
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.158, Ravenio Books

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