Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Love
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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
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This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
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Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
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Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
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For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.
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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
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Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?
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There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
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A useless life is an early death.
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Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Love can do much, but duty more.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.
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Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
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There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.
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