Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 19

• Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Laughter, Men, Suffering

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.36, 谷月社

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• How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Determination, Years, Knows

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Knowing, Study

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Past, Ifs

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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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Destiny, Order

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

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• In comradeship is danger countered best.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Friendship, Friends, Danger

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Greek

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

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• The eternal feminine draws us on high.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Long, Helping

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Knows

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving, Shapes, Deny

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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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• 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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• He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

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  Hero, Order, Needs

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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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hammers, Anvils, Masters

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Thinking, Knowing

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• Everyone only hears what he understands.

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• No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Competition, Underestimate

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• A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

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  Happiness, Inner Peace, Strive

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fitness, Relaxation, Human Nature

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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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Games, Use, Governing

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• Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Taken, Sky, Tree

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Parke Godwin (1872). “The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry, from My Own Life”, p.388

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• The one who always strives,
  That one can be redeemed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strive, Salvation, Strife

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