Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 10

• Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Book, Daily Life

  "Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann".

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• Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hope, Enough, Anxious

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• Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Growth, Progress, Lines

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• The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Clever, Drinking, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W. B. Rönnfeldt (1898*). “Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims”

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• People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, People, Listening

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• Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Men, Common Sense

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.96, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Please

  "'Der Versuch als Vermittler von Objekt und Subjekt' ('The Attempt as Mediator of Object and Subject')". Essay by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1792.

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• The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Ideas, Originality

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• A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Respect, Men, Thinking

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (18??). “The Works of J. W. Von Goethe”

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• Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Faith, Retreat

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• He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Science, Religion

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• Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Tree, Green, Theory

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• There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Views, Insignificant Things, Literature

  "Goethe's World View: Presented in His Reflections and Maxims".

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• Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Change, Immortality, Proof

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• What you can do, or think you can, begin it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Gymnastics, Thinking, Decision Making

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Lose The Day Loitering”

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• Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Phoenix, Ashes

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• The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self Worth, Men, Thinking

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• Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Communication, Views, Achievement

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Advice, Criticism

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• For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Girl, Men, Brave

  "Hermann and Dorothea". Poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, III. 19, October 1797.

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• Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Problem, Solutions

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• The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Thinking, Joy

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• Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.

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  Light, Shining, Needs

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• People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Years, People

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.477, Ravenio Books

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