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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
By Johann von Goethe
The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.
By Johann von Goethe
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
By Johann von Goethe
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.
By Johann von Goethe
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
By Johann von Goethe
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator.
By Johann von Goethe
I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
By Johann von Goethe
No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others.
By Johann von Goethe
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
By Johann von Goethe
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
By Johann von Goethe
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
By Johann von Goethe
Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.
By Johann von Goethe
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
By Johann von Goethe