Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Top 10 Quotes
10 | By nothing do men show their character more than by the things they laugh at. |
9 | Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will - it's only action that can make a man. |
8 | The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist. |
7 | The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable. |
6 | He is the happiest man who can set the end of his life in connection with the beginning. |
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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. |
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Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more. |
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There is strong shadow where there is much light. |
2 | Nature's crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble. |
1 | Rest not! Life is sweeping by; |