Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 14

• True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

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  Love Is, Empty, Fortune

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• Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasure, is it worthwhile to dress and undress?

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  Morning, Joy, Dresses

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• All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

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  Intelligent, Thinking, Intelligence

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 441, 1998.

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• I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

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  Mephistopheles, Omniscient, Knows

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Luke (1998). “Faust”, p.49, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.

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  Doe, Tests, Way

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

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• If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

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  Motivational, Writing, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.95, Ravenio Books

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• All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.

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  Spiritual

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• Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

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  Thinking, Mind, Stories

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1906). “Faust, a Dramatic Mystery”

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• So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

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  Friendship, Hair, White

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• It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

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  Men, Littles, Matter

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.33

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• To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.

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  Clue

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• The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

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  Men, Privilege, Loses

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• Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

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  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.111, Princeton University Press

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• What then is your duty? What the day demands.

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  Demand, Duty, Obligation

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• Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

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  Giving, Doubt, Benefits

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

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  Motivational, Success, Leadership

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• Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

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  Truth, Men, Shows

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3515, Delphi Classics

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• Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.

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  Fashion, Hands, Skills

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• Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.

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  Nature, Accomplish, Leap

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1966). “Conversations and encounters”

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• There is strong shadow where there is much light.

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  Strong, Light, Shadow

  "Goetz of Berlichingen, with the iron hand". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Act I, 1773.

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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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• To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character; and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.

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  Strong, Character, Mean

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3542, Delphi Classics

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• Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

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  Truth, Errors, Again And Again

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• Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

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  Perfect, Meaning Of Life, Done

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• A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

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  Men, Practice, Needs

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