Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
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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, …
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI love those who yearn for the impossible.
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Love does not dominate it cultivates.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Doubt grows with knowledge.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.