Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 12

• Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strong, Book, Reading

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• The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Soul

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bayard Taylor (1950). “Faust, a tragedy”

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• Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Trust, Errors, Distrust

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• What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Age, Youth, Abundance

  Wahrheit und Dichtung (Poetry and Truth) pt. 2, ch. 6 (1811 - 1833)

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• There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

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  Men, Peers, Noble

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• The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Thinking, He Man

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3527, Delphi Classics

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• The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.

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  Appreciation, Time, Appreciate

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• Doubt can only be removed by action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Fear, Doubt

  Thomas Carlyle, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué (Freiherr de), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Karl August Musäus (1827). “Wilhelm Meister's travels”, p.8

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• I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

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  Education, Hate, Activity

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• What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Men, Doe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.68, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

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  Students, Observation, Equal

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.173, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.

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  Life, Heart, Thinking

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• Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.

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  Tombstone, Lying, Heart

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• Common sense is the genius of humanity.

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  Meaningful, Common Sense, Humanity

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• Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.

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  Magic, Genius, Boldness

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• A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.

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  Men, Faults, Lovable

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• What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

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  Inspirational, Contradiction, Agree

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.221, Ravenio Books

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• Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

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  Hate, Hatred, Degrees

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (1949). “Words of Goethe: being the conversations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”

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• In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

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  Leadership, Perseverance, Business

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• Only law can give us freedom.

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  Freedom, Law, Giving

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• The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

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  Time, Destiny, People

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• A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

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  Men, Littles, Difficult

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.

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  Light, Darkness, Birth

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• What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

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  Life, Literature, Ifs

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• Patriotism corrupts history.

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  Politics

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

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