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Love4 quotes
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. — Theodor Adorno · 1951I 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 · 1774Only the soul that loves is happy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1788Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." — Erich Fromm · 1956Art2 quotes
Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1840Even the most insensitive hit song enthusiast cannot always escape the feeling that the child with a sweet tooth comes to know in the candy store. — Theodor Adorno · 1938Being in love2 quotes
He who doesn't see his lover's faults as virtues is not in love. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1832I 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 · 1774How to live2 quotes
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1786Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808The human condition2 quotes
No 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 · 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 · 1774Yin and yang2 quotes
There is a strong shadow where there is much light. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1773Must 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 · 1774Accomplishment1 quote
The deed is all, the glory nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1832Adulthood1 quote
No 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 · 1774Adventure1 quote
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know
where one is going. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1812Architecture1 quote
I call architecture frozen music. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1829Auschwitz1 quote
To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. — Theodor Adorno · 1951Capitalism1 quote
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno · 1959Character1 quote
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1790Childhood1 quote
Let no one think that he can conquer the first impressions of his youth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1796Cold War1 quote
We 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 · 1948Connection1 quote
To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us even in silence-this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1786Contrasts1 quote
There is a strong shadow where there is much light. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1773Creativity1 quote
I by no means owe my works to my own wisdom alone, but to a thousand things and persons around me, who provided me with material. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1832Divided self1 quote
Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808Doing one's best1 quote
Who strives always to the utmost,
For him there is salvation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808Doubt and skepticism1 quote
Doubt grows with knowledge. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1819Downsides of freedom1 quote
Freedom, though it has brought him independence and rationality, has made him isolated and, thereby, anxious and powerless. — Erich Fromm · 1941Effects of childhood1 quote
Let no one think that he can conquer the first impressions of his youth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1796Effects of love1 quote
Only the soul that loves is happy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1788Emotions1 quote
Must 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 · 1774Empathy1 quote
There are few things of greater advantage than learning to appreciate the strong points of your opponents. — Johann Wolfgang von GoetheExile1 quote
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live. — Theodor Adorno · 1951Exploration1 quote
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know
where one is going. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1812Foreign languages1 quote
He who does not know foreign languages knows nothing of his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1821Glory1 quote
The deed is all, the glory nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1832