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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

«Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there»
«Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.»
«The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else»
«There is no art in turning a goddess into a witch, a virgin into a whore, but the opposite operation, to give dignity to what has been scorned, to make the degraded disireable, that calls for art or for character.»
«How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.»
«When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.»
«Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being»
«Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love»
«There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.»
«There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.»