Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(German Poet)

Date of Birth:: 28 August 1749
Date of Death:: 22 March 1832
Nationality:: German
Quote count:: 568
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“The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Man

“Common sense is the genius of humanity.”

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Common sense

Genius

Humanity

“Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.”

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Divide

Lead

Motto

One

Rule

Sound

Unite

“Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.”

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Wealth

World

“Mastery is often taken for egotism”

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Egotism

“There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily in recalling the memories of past misfortunes, instead of trying to bear an indifferent present.”

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God

World

“Nature alone is illimitably rich, and Nature alone forms the great artist.”

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Artist

“The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.”

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