Tag: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

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That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.

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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

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The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.

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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

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The highest happiness of man … is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

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