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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quote of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Be humanity evermore our goal....


Biography - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

German writer and statesman.
Born: 1749 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Be humanity evermore our goal.



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Humanität sei unser ewig Ziel.

French
Que l'humanité soit notre but éternel.




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See also...



May all men remember that they are brothers!

All men will become brothers.




Quotes for: eternity


Quotes

Quotes about eternity:


To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.






It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.






Time is the moving image of eternity.
Plato - Timaeus / 





Time, that moving image of an immovable eternity.





Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.





As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.











Quotes for: Human nature


Quotes

Quotes about human nature:


I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.





Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.





Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.





I am human, and I think that nothing of that which is human is alien to me.





Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.





Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.











Quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also said...


In all things it is better to hope than to despair.





As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





To do good needs no consideration.





We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.





People grow old indeed, but who grows wise?





The aim of living is Life itself.












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