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Tragedy11 quotes
One lives but once in this world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774Who strives always to the utmost,
For him there is salvation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808The deed is all, the glory nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1832Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808Man will err while yet he strives. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808Law is mighty, mightier necessity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808All 11 quotes →Tragedy (play)11 quotes
One lives but once in this world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774Who strives always to the utmost,
For him there is salvation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808The deed is all, the glory nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1832Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808Man will err while yet he strives. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808Law is mighty, mightier necessity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808All 11 quotes →Philosophical literature6 quotes
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. — Theodor Adorno · 1951We are now brought face to face with a tyranny which holds out the threat of becoming, thanks to "the conquest of nature" and in particular of human nature, what no earlier tyranny ever became: perpetual and universal. — Leo Strauss · 1948For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. — Theodor Adorno · 1951In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than the glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. — Theodor Adorno · 1951Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno · 1959Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." — Erich Fromm · 1956Epistolary novel5 quotes
If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere!" — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774Psychological literature2 quotes
Freedom, though it has brought him independence and rationality, has made him isolated and, thereby, anxious and powerless. — Erich Fromm · 1941Man's nature, his passions and anxieties, are a cultural product; as a matter of fact, man himself is the most important creation and achievement of the continuous human effort, the record of which we call history. — Erich Fromm · 1941