"Noble be man,Helpful and good!For that aloneSets..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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More by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.”
“If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.”
“Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.”
More on Humanity
“Man is a being in search of meaning.”
“I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.”
“A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will makea reasonable Dish; and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.”
More on Morality
“There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.”
“If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?”
“Don't do what's right to get something. Do the right thing because it's the right thing.”