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Letter "J" » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
«Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago»
«For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
fail, ideas, save, situation, word
«Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
animates, expands, narrows, paralyzes
«To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
own version, version
«Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
to the lowest degree
«So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
for all, misunderstood, once and for all, resign, resigning, resigns, so long, to that
«There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.»
«In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
audacity, conceivable, no touch, talent
«When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
easily, face, Good Wives, has a, husband, seen, wife
«Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.»
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