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There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.
By Johann von Goethe
Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
By Johann von Goethe
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?
By Johann von Goethe
If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
By Johann von Goethe
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
By Johann von Goethe
What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
By Johann von Goethe
The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
By Johann von Goethe
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.
By Johann von Goethe
Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
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Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
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People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
By Johann von Goethe