Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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
If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The supreme achievement would be to see that stating a fact is starting a theory.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In science the treatment is nothing, and all the effect lies in the discovery.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe