There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will...

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will...

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be...

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be...

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have...

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have...

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be...

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be...

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him,...

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him,...

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of...

Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of...

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

People of a vertain rank will always keep a cool distance from common people, as...

People of a vertain rank will always keep a cool distance from common people, as...

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which...

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which...

The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest...

The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest...

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without...

Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without...

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to...

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to...