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I'm fairly fond of boys, but my preference is for girls; When I have enough of a girl, she serves me still as a boy.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Sexuality

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Divide and rule, the politician cries;Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Divide And Conquer Lead Leaders People Politicians Politics Sectarianism Unite Wise

I myself must also say I believe it is true that in the end humanitarianism will triumph, only I fear that at the same time the world will be one big hospital and each person will be the other person's humane keeper.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Mental Illness Psychiatry Therapeutic State Therapeutism

It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nature Secrets

I've often heard it said, a preacherMight learn, with a comedian for a teacher.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Deep Thoughts Irony Wisdom

He'd have improved if you'd not givenHim a mere glimmer of the light in heaven;He calls it Reason, and it has only increasedHis power to be beastlier than a beast.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Mankind Philosophy Of People

There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity and humiliate us.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Friendship And Love Present

On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Death And Dying

My father, my father, and dost thou not hearThe words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear?'Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives;Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Death And Dying

National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Bigotry German Cosmopolitanism Hatred Mob Mentality Moral Panics Nationalism Radical Right

When I say to the Moment flying;'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!'Then bind me in thy bonds undying,And my final ruin I will bear!

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Classics Devil Drama Pact

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Admiration Alexander Humboldt Alexander Von Humboldt Honor Humboldt Praise Recognition

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Hardshipsperspective Life Struggle

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Everything Existential Existentialism Life Metaphor

What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Devil Faust Faustian Legend Faustus

When he comes to the doorhe always looks mocking and half-way angry.You can see he has sympathy for nothing.It's written on his foreheadthat he can love no one.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Devil Faust Faustian Legend Faustus

Being full of mischief, they love to listen;they gladly obey, for they like to betray you,pretending to be sent from Heaven,and lisping like angels, while they lie.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Devil Faust Faustian Legend Faustus

Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledgefor mankind in polished speechesthat are no more than vaporous windsrustling the fallen leaves in autumn.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Devil Faust Faustus Faustian Legend Play

Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Devil Faust Faustian Legend Faustus

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind.I grasped a lovely masked procession,And caught things from a horror show…I’d gladly settle for a false impression,If it would last a little longer, though.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Comfort Fake False Illusion Impression Mask

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Beliefs God Religion Religiosity

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Free Freedom

One who has passed the thirtieth yearalready is as good as dead--it would be best to kill you off by then.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Arrogance Faust Growing Old

Think of you! I do not think of you, you are always before my soul.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Love Soulmate Unrequited Love

What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Strangeness Tolerance Wine

Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Insightful Inspriation Inspriational Thoughtful Wisdom

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Children Parenting Roots

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Life Dead Other

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Great Nothing You

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Day Good Words

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Love Great Wings

Nothing is worth more than this day.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Day Nothing Worth

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Love Impossible Yearn

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Power Men Small

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Lovers Two Witness

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Thinking Looking

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.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe See Connection Anything

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Children Birds Taste

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Progress Development
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