So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political, Christian views, and philosophical thought in the Western world from the late...

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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

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We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

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