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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The most famous aphorisms

In artless truthfulness and grandeur, but wildly and unbridled, Lord Byron's talent developed, so hardly anyone can compare with him. - after 1824
There is something magical about rhythm, it makes us believe that the sublime belongs to us.
Faith is not the beginning, but the end of all wisdom.
Taste develops not on mediocre, but on the most perfect material.
All laws are made by old men and men. Young and women want exceptions, old people want rules.
All skill is in self-restraint.
You can always find enough time if you use it well.
The foolishest of all is the one who thinks that he loses his originality if he recognizes a truth already recognized by others.
They say that the truth lies between the two opposing views. Wrong! Between them lies the problem.
They say that numbers rule the world. No, they only show how the world is ruled.
Amateurs, having done their best, usually say to themselves in defense that the work is not yet ready.
For true art there is no preparatory school, there are only preparatory works, the best of which is the participation of even the most insignificant student in the work of the master. From the boys who rubbed the paints, excellent artists came out.
If you lose goodness, you will lose a little; if you lose honor, you will lose a lot; if you lose courage, you will lose everything.
If someone wants to learn all the laws, then he will not have time to break them.
If you treat a person the way he deserves, he will get worse, but if you treat him like the person he could be, he will get better.
They complain about the scientific academies that they are not briskly getting involved in life, but this does not depend on them, but on the way science is treated in general.
The law is mighty, but the power of need is stronger.
Common sense is the genius of mankind.
And a great man is just a man.
Art is the medium of that which cannot be expressed.
Art in itself is noble. Therefore, the artist is not afraid of the base. Taking it under his protection, he already ennobles it.
The history of science is a great fugue into which, little by little, the voices of the nations enter.
Everyone can easily find freedom if only he knows how to limit himself and find himself.
Beauty will never understand its essence.
Who thinks for a long time, does not always find the best solution.
Those who do not know foreign languages do not know anything about their own.
The lyrics - in general - should be very reasonable, in particular, a little rustic.
Many thoughts grow only from a common culture, like a flower from a green branch. When roses bloom, roses bloom everywhere.
Youth is a shortcoming that passes quickly.
Young poets pour a lot of water into their ink.
Music - in the best sense of the word - needs less novelty, on the contrary, the older it is, the more correct, the stronger it affects.
The most absurd of all delusions is when gifted young people imagine that they will lose their originality by accepting as correct what has already been recognized by others.
Height beckons us, but do not take steps to it, turning our gaze to the top, we prefer to walk along the plain.
Science is greatly delayed by doing what is not worth studying and what is unknowable.
Science helps us first of all by facilitating to some extent the astonishment to which we are called by nature, and also by the fact that, in an ever-increasing life, it awakens new abilities to remove the harmful and introduce the useful.
The sciences in general always move away from life and return to it again only in a roundabout way.
Our relationship with Schiller was based on the resolute striving of both towards a common goal, our joint activity - on the difference in the means by which we tried to achieve it.
There can be no patriotic art or patriotic science.
Some books, apparently, were written not in order to learn something from them, but in order to spread a rumor around the world that the author also learned something.
Hatred is an active feeling of discontent, envy is a passive one. Therefore, one should not be surprised if envy quickly turns into hatred.
Hate is partial, but love is even more partial.
There is nothing more dangerous to a new truth than an old error.
There is nothing more disgusting than most.
There is nothing more disgusting than the majority: after all, it consists of a few strong ones who go ahead, of cunning tricks, of the weak, who try not to stand out, and of the crowd, which minces after, not knowing itself what it wants.
Nothing reveals a person's character more than what he finds funny.
History cannot be judged by one who has not experienced it himself. This is how it is with entire nations. The Germans got the right to judge literature only from the time they themselves created it.
Patriotic art and patriotic science do not exist. Like everything lofty and noble, they belong to the whole world, and only the free interaction of all contemporaries with constant consideration of what remains of the past can help them.
The first and last thing required of a genius is the love of truth.
Translators are troublesome panders who praise us in every possible way for the half-veiled beauty, they arouse an irresistible desire for the original.
Scripture is industrious idleness.
First of all, teach yourself - then you will learn something from others.
The novel is a subjective epic in which the author asks permission to reinterpret the world in his own way. And so, the whole question is whether he has his own way. The rest will follow.
Romanticism has already fallen into the abyss, it is impossible to imagine anything more disgusting than his latest productions.
The biggest slavery is not having freedom, to consider yourself free.
The thinnest hair also casts a shadow.
Consciousness of one's imperfection brings one closer to perfection.
To communicate about oneself is a natural desire, to perceive what is communicated as it is given is the ability of education.
Superstition is the poetry of life, and therefore it does not matter if the poet is superstitious.
Superstition is an element of the very essence of man, sometimes it seems to us that we have completely got rid of it, but meanwhile it hides in secret corners and suddenly reappears when it considers itself completely safe.
He who, having realized, declares himself limited, is closest to perfection.
The actor has no conscience, only the observer has a conscience.
Humor is one of the elements of genius, but when it prevails, it becomes its surrogate.
Humor is one of the elements of genius, but as soon as it begins to excel, it is only a surrogate for the latter; it accompanies decadent art, destroys and finally destroys it.

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