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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

«To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.»
«They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.»
«I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.»
«The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.»
«To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.»
«God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.»
«A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.»
«The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.»
«Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.»