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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

«Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious»
«I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people»
«He who does not know how to give himself an account of three thousand years may remain in the dark, inexperienced, and live from day to day»
«The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal»
«Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.»
«The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.»
«Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.»
«National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.»
«Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.»
«It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.»