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		I call architecture frozen music. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
		Author Details: Type: Poet Quotes Category: German Poet Quotes Date of Birth: August 28, 1749 Date of Death: March 22, 1832 Nationality: German Amazon: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Amazon	Related Authors: Rainer Maria Rilke Bertolt Brecht Heinrich Heine Novalis Nelly Sachs Adelbert von Chamisso Christoph Martin Wieland Christian Morgenstern
		Select Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations: No one has ever learned fully to know themselves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If I love you, what business is it of yours? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A person hears only what they understand. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The little man is still a man. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote Keywords: Architecture, Call, Frozen, Music	Dictionary Links: Architecture, Call, Frozen, Music	All Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotations: A clever man commits no minor blunders. A correct answer is like an... A creation of importance can only... A man's manners are a mirror... A noble person attracts noble people... A person hears only what they understand. A person places themselves on a... A really great talent finds its... A useless life is an early death. Age merely shows what children we remain. All intelligent thoughts have already been thought... All the knowledge I possess everyone... All theory, dear friend, is gray... All things are only transitory. An unused life is an early death. As soon as you trust yourself... Be above it! Make the world... Be generous with kindly words, especially... Beauty is a manifestation of secret... Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. Behavior is the mirror in which... Being brilliant is no great feat... Certain defects are necessary for the... Character develops itself in the stream... Character is formed in the stormy... Character, in great and little things... Common sense is the genius of humanity. Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Daring ideas are like chessmen moved... Death is a commingling of eternity... Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand... Destiny grants us our wishes, but... Devote each day to the object... Divide and rule, the politician cries... Do not give in too much... Doubt grows with knowledge. Dream no small dreams for they... Error is acceptable as long as... Every author in some way portrays... Every day we should hear at... Every person above the ordinary has... Every spoken word arouses our self-will. Every step of life shows much... Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody... Everything in the world may be... Few people have the imagination for reality. First and last, what is demanded... For a man to achieve all... For just when ideas fail, a... Fresh activity is the only means... Girls we love for what they... Go to foreign countries and you... Great thoughts and a pure heart... Happiness is a ball after which... Hatred is active, and envy passive... Hatred is something peculiar. You will... He is dead in this world... He is happiest, be he king... He only earns his freedom and... He who does not think much... He who enjoys doing and enjoys... He who has a task to... He who possesses art and science... I call architecture frozen music. I can tell you, honest friend... I do not know myself, and... I love those who yearn for... I never knew a more presumptuous... I think that I am better... I will listen to anyone's convictions... If a man or woman is... If a man writes a book... If children grew up according to... If God had wanted me otherwise... If I love you, what business... If you modestly enjoy your fame... If you must tell me your... If you start to think of... If you wish to know the... If your treat an individual... as... Ignorant men raise questions that wise... In art the best is good enough. In nature we never see anything... In the realm of ideas everything... It is after all the greatest... It is better to be deceived... It is in self-limitation that... It is not doing the thing... It is the strange fate of... It seems to never occur to... Just trust yourself, then you will... Know thyself? If I knew myself... Knowing is not enough; we must... Let everyone sweep in front of... Letters are among the most significant... Life belongs to the living, and... Life is the childhood of our immortality. Live dangerously and you live right. Love and desire are the spirit's... Love can do much, but duty more. Love does not dominate; it cultivates. Magic is believing in yourself, if... Man is made by his belief... Many people take no care of... Mastery passes often for egotism. Men show their character in nothing... Music is either sacred or secular... Mysteries are not necessarily miracles. Nature knows no pause in progress... No one has ever learned fully... No one would talk much in... None are more hopelessly enslaved than... Nothing is more fearful than imagination... Nothing is more terrible than to... Nothing is to be rated higher... Nothing is worth more than this day. Nothing shows a man's character more... Objects in pictures should so be... On all the peaks lies peace. One always has time enough, if... One can be instructed in society... One cannot develop taste from what... One must ask children and birds... Only by joy and sorrow does... Passions are vices or virtues to... Personality is everything in art and poetry. Piety is not a goal but... Plunge boldly into the thick of... Precaution is better than cure. Science arose from poetry... when times... Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. Sowing is not as difficult as reaping. Superstition is the poetry of life. Talent develops in quiet places, character... Talk well of the absent whenever... The artist alone sees spirits. But... The best government is that which... The biggest problem with every art... The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad... The coward only threatens when he... The credit of advancing science has... The decline of literature indicates the... The deed is everything, the glory... The formation of one's character ought... The hardest thing to see is... The human mind will not be... The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous... The little man is still a man. The man who occupies the first... The man with insight enough to... The mediator of the inexpressible is... The most happy man is he... The people who are absent are... The person born with a talent... The right man is the one... The soul that sees beauty may... The unnatural, that too is natural. The world remains ever the same. There is a courtesy of the... There is nothing in the world... There is nothing in which people... There is nothing insignificant in the... There is nothing so terrible as... Thinking is easy, acting is difficult... Thinking is more interesting than knowing... This is the highest wisdom that... Those who hope for no other... To appreciate the noble is a... To create something you must be something. To hard necessity ones will and... To rule is easy, to govern difficult. To the person with a firm... To witness two lovers is a... Trust yourself, then you will know... Unlike grown ups, children have little... Upon the creatures we have made... We always have time enough, if... We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. We are never further from what... We can't form our children on... We cannot fashion our children after... We don't get to know people... We know accurately only when we... We usually lose today, because there... We will burn that bridge when... What by a straight path cannot... What is important in life is... What is my life if I... What is not started today is... What is uttered from the heart... What life half gives a man... Whatever you can do, or dream... Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. When ideas fail, words come in... Where is the man who has... Which government is the best? The... Who is the most sensible person... Who is the wisest man? He... Whoever wishes to keep a secret... Wisdom is found only in truth. Wood burns because it has the...

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