“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“If we meet someone who owes us thanks, we right away remember that. But how often do we meet someone to whom we owe thanks without remembering that?”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn’t every nation have its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“So as to comprehend that the sky is blue everywhere one doesn’t need to travel around the world.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one’s own inclination.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten the arrival of that age.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in nature is change but behind the change there is something eternal.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and make no one happy when they are finished.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“Patriotism ruins history.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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