Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 19

• A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Sight, Firsts

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• The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty,
  Even though this world is forever altering its values.

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  Forever, Humanity, World

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• We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies

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  Beautiful, Lying, Men

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• Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

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  Dream, Destiny, Order

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.186, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
  [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]

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  Should, Fortune, Fortunate

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• 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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  People, Humanity, Literature

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• Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.

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  Past, Ifs

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• The eternal feminine draws us on high.

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  Women, Feminine, Femininity

  "Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832.

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• God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

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  Art, Long, Helping

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• Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

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  Dream, Greek

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3535, Delphi Classics

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• We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

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  Giving, Shapes, Deny

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• To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.

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  Atheist, Religion, Harmony

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• In comradeship is danger countered best.

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  Friendship, Friends, Danger

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• We don't get to know anything but what we love.

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  Love, Knows

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• Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

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  Knowledge, Thinking, Knowing

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• nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

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  Heart, Talking, Utterance

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.29, e-artnow

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• It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.

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  Men, Thinking, Degrees

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.369

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• You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

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  Hammers, Anvils, Masters

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• The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

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  Emotional, Feelings, Realms

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• Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

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  Science, Knowing, Study

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• It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

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  Fitness, Relaxation, Human Nature

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• Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

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  Travel, Winning, Gambling

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• To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.

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  Motivational, Artist, And Love

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• One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

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  Men, Justice, Sides

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• We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

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  Games, Use, Governing

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