Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Biography : German writer and statesman.
Born: 1749 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Germany

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Quotes

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.
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We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.
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tolerance

One never goes so far as when one no longer knows where one is going.
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Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
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character

Whoever wants to deceive people must first of all make absurdity plausible.
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absurd

The dignity of art appears perhaps most eminently in music, because in music there is no material factor to be discounted. Music is all form and figure, exalting and ennobling everything it expresses.
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Everything clever has already been thought; we must only try to think it again.
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to think

The first and last thing required of genius is love of truth.
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.
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If a man spreads my failings abroad, he is my master, even though he were my servant.
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