Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author; b. 1749; d. 1832
Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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tiny.ag/tymlwb79 · submitted 1997
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/ufko7fwv · submitted 1997
I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.
tiny.ag/qeydmvyx · submitted 1997
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
tiny.ag/ucas5skv · submitted 1997
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
tiny.ag/toy71ing · submitted 1997
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
tiny.ag/juocdkwi · submitted 1997
Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.
tiny.ag/he6rec8v · submitted 1997
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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