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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

«The solution of every problem is another problem»
«Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.»
«Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains»
«The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden»
«We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.»
«For the nature of women is closely allied to art»
«From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives»
«To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability»
«Why do we hear such everlasting negative talk! People all imagine they'll be giving something away if they recognize the least bit of merit.»
«Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.»