Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse."	Life
"The society of women is the element of good manners."	Evil, Men, Women
"What is not fully understood is not possessed."	Miscellaneous
"The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth."	Genius, Honesty, Love
"Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension."	Men
"We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases."	Doubt, Knowledge, Wisdom
"The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them."	Age, Art
"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it only finds us true children still."	Age, Honesty, Truth
"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."	Art, Dreams, Men
"Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal."	Adversity, Difficulty, Goals
"I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished."	Accomplishment, Achievement, Lies
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."	Age, Dreams, Genius
"The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."	Ability, Happiness, Joy
"I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."	Excellence
"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."	Love
"Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color."	Age, Courage, Virtue
"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."	Age, Friends, Life
"Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do."	Education, Friends, School
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."	Change, Experience, Honesty
"One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going."	Knowledge, Wisdom
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Art	Beginnings	Books
Change	Character	Courage
Creativity	Darkness	Death
Desires	Destiny	Destruction
Difficulty	Doubt	Dreams
Education	Evil	Excellence
Experience	Failure	Faith
Fate	Friends	Genius
Goals	Government	Happiness
Help	Honesty	Hope
Humor	Ignorance	Insults
Intelligence	Joy	Knowledge
Laughter	Law	Lies
Life	Light	Love
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Mistakes	Monarchy	Money
Music	Nature	Opportunity
Peace	Poetry	Power
Reading	School	Sin
Sleeping	Sorrow	Stupidity
Talent	Teaching	Time
Truth	Virtue	Wants
War	Wisdom	Wishing
Women	Writing