Superstition is the poetry of life.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political, Christian views, and philosophical thought in the Western world from the late 18th century to the present. A poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre-director, and critic, Goethe wrote a wide range of works, including plays, poetry and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, …
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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
On all the peaks lies peace.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
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Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be c…
I call architecture frozen music.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Love can do much, but duty more.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?