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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832. German writer and philosopher, author of "Faust" and "The Sorrows of Young Werther".
1. "You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues."
source: "Sayings in Prose"
categories: Love
2. "Words express neither objects nor ourselves."
source: "Sayings in Prose"
categories: Oration and Silence -:- Reality and Imagination
3. "What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess."
source: "Art and Antiquity"
categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Various
4. "What matters in art is not thinking but making."
source: "Italian Journey"
categories: Art and Culture
categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Peace and War
source: letter to Johann Friedrich Cotta
categories: Art and Culture
7. "There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love."
8. "The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running."
source: "Art and Antiquity"
categories: Various
9. "The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
categories: Intellect, Judgement
categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Success and Fame -:- Time and Passing
11. "The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology."
source: "Wilhelm Meister's Travels"
categories: Art and Culture -:- Science and Technology
12. "Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life."
source: "Torquato Tasso"
categories: Human -:- Various -:- Talent and Genius
13. "Patriotism ruins history."
categories: History and Nations -:- Patriotism
14. "Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and make no one happy when they are finished."
source: "Italian Journey"
categories: Happiness -:- Peace and War
15. "Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page."
source: "Italian Journey"
categories: Nature and Animals
16. "Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds."
categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Science and Technology
17. "Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals."
19. "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
20. "It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law."
categories: Justice -:- Law and Crime
21. "If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own."
source: "Art and Antiquity"
categories: History and Nations
22. "He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
categories: Happiness -:- Peace and War
23. "Experiments are mediators between nature and idea."
source: "Sayings in Prose"
categories: Nature and Animals -:- Science and Technology
24. "Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity."
categories: Richness and Money -:- Success and Fame
25. "Error is to truth as sleep is to waking."
source: "Art and Antiquity"
categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Truth and Falsity
26. "Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one."
categories: Authority, Government
27. "Character develops itself in the stream of life."
28. "Association with women is the basis of good manners."
categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Woman and Man
29. "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
categories: Life and Death -:- Trust
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