Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Philosophy
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Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
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We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
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One lives but once in the world.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.
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Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
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Man errs as long as he strives.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love
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Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.
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The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.
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All our knowledge is symbolic.
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Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.
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Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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