More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
  2. Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his c…
  3. Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.
  4. Mathematicians are [like] a sort of Frenchmen; if you talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and then it is immediately s…
  5. Joy and sorrow both have part in my solitude.
  6. Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
  7. It's not that age brings childhood back again, age merely shows what children we remain.
  8. None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

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