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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Poet
Born: Aug 28, 1749
Died: Mar 22, 1832
He Life Man Nothing Will You
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The unnatural, that too is natural. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Natural Too Unnatural
There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing Insight Terrible Without Activity
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People Earnest Thoughtful Thoughtful People Shaky Footing Public Stand Deeply
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Kiss Correct Like Answer Affectionate
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love Heart Behavior Purest Allied Outward Courtesy Springs To Love
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You Whatever Possess Understand Cannot
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man Else Neither He Wisest Wisest Man Wishes Knows Than Anything Anything Else Happens Who
Every step of life shows much caution is required. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life Every Every Step Step Caution Much Required Shows
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Solitude Society Only Inspired Instructed
On all the peaks lies peace. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Peace Lies Peaks
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You Enjoy Rank Unworthy Fame Modestly Holy Your
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Word Situation Fail Ideas Just Save
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Society Others Would No-One Knew Talk How Misunderstood Often Much
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life Man Half Posterity Entirely Gives
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man Strange Fate Fear Worst Evils Haunt Him Greatest Even
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life Hope Other Those Dead Who Even
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Day Value Nothing Rated Higher Than
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life Wisdom Alone Day Freedom Own Earned Those Anew Highest Them Who Each Each Day Conquer
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People Out Must Find Come Like Know Go Get Them Us
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man Book Own Down Enough Guesses My Own Only Writes He Him Knows Set
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Own Finds Advantage Most Person Happens Sensible Sensible Person Them Who
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Solitude Creation Only Importance Himself Author Child Produced
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
World Above Purpose Make Your Serve
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man Respect Thinking Others Seems He Himself Scorn Frivolous Any May Them Who Ridicule Right
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Strength Man Be True He True Himself Where Show Who
A clever man commits no minor blunders. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man Clever Minor Clever Man Blunders
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