More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  1. The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.
  2. A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
  3. Doubt grows with knowledge.
  4. All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
  5. Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
  6. Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tatige Unwissenheit.
  7. Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
  8. Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

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