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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was a German writer, poet, and polymath widely regarded as the greatest figure in German literature. His masterwork *Faust* is one of the most important works of European literature. Goethe's influence extended beyond writing into science, philosophy, and visual arts.

“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowledge

All Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty

“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature

“He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art

“To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

“Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great

“Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Death

“First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

“Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men

“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature

“To rule is easy, to govern difficult.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Government

“We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God

“Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God

“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art

“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great

“I call architecture frozen music.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Architecture

“To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men

“Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

“On all the peaks lies peace.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Peace

“Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time

“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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