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Letter "J" » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
«To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.»
«They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
academies, Teach In, The academy
«I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
despairs, mocking
«More light!»
«The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Cause and Effect, phenomenon, The Thinker, thinker
«To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
halve, halved, halves
«God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.»
«A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.»
«The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.»
«Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.»
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