Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 13

• Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

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  Leadership, Hope, Motivation

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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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• Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.

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  Writing, Science, Men

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• All things are only transitory.

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  Literature, All Things, Transitory

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• Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

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  Men, Elderly, Wish

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• If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

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  Want, Sides, Infinite

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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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• Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

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  Achievement, Faithful, Promise

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• Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

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  Respect, Attitude, Literature

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

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  Trust, Errors, Distrust

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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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  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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• I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.

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  Respect, Men, Goal

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• Personality is everything in art and poetry.

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  Art, Artist, Personality

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1921). “Goethe's Literary Essays”

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• Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

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  Love, Inspiring, Philosophy

  "'Das Märchen' ('The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily')". Story by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1795. Translated by Thomas Carlyle, 1832, wn.rsarchive.org.

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• A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

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  Men, Delight, Alive

  Baltasar Gracián, François Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2017). “Collected Wisdom: The Art of Worldly Wisdom; Reflections: Or, Sentences and Moral Maxims; and Maxims and Reflections”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

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  Life, Happiness, Quality

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• Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

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  Sympathy, Destiny, Joy

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• I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

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  People, Made, Mankind

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• We must be young to do great things.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Youth, Young, Great Things

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.293, Ravenio Books

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• The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.65, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

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  Wise, Nature, Hate

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• Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

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  Children, Honesty, Deception

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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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• When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

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  Attitude, Differences, People

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