Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Her mechanism has few springs — but they never wear out, are always active and manifold.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The supreme achievement would be to see that stating a fact is starting a theory.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.
Variant translation: I feel what makes the poet, a full heart, filled entirely with one emotion
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe