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«There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
irresolute, oscillated, oscillates, oscillating, pitiable, unite, willingly
«The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
ridiculous, sensible
«There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.»
«Poetic fire sank low in me When it was God I sought to see, But up it flamed, up to the sky, When it was Evil I had to fly»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
flamed, poetic, sank, To Fly
«A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
marked, strivings
«A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
associates, criminal, punish
«Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
advance, motives, retreat
«What is not fully understood is not possessed.»
«The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Appearance,
Art
| Keywords:
appearances, loftier
«All our knowledge is symbolic.»
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