More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. Only when we know little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge.
  2. Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent ind…
  3. One has only to grow older to become more tolerant. I see no fault that I might not have committed myself.
  4. Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
  5. None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
  6. The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny - that which w…
  7. Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
  8. The deed is everything, the glory naught.

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