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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Precaution is better than cure.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Superstition is the poetry of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The coward only threatens when he is safe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Biography

Type: Poet
Nationality: German
Born: August 28, 1749
Died: March 22, 1832

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