Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 20

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strive, Salvation, Strife

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• No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Competition, Underestimate

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• There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Action, Capacity

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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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• 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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• Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Birthday, Men, Years

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.817, Delphi Classics

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• It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Space, Grace, Empty

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• He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, Doe, Lines

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.161, Ravenio Books

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• One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

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  Summer, Nature, Children

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• All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on
  our own, just as with life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Would Be, Lessons, Valuable

  Letter to Carl Friedrich Zelter, November 26, 1825.

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• Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Stupid, Thinking

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 787-90, Faust, II, 2, 1, 1922.

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• Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Battle, Monsters

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• He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

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  Love, Life, Dream

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1978). “Goethe's Faust: An abridged version”

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• Everyone only hears what he understands.

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• It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.

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  Reflection, Desire, Example

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• One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Humility, Thinking, Doe

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• Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Perfect, Heaven

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.126, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image.
  [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mirrors, Behavior, Manners

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• Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Heart, Men

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• Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Miracle, Magic, Literature

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.114

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• The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Christian, Atheist, Errors

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• Every beginning is cheerful.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Cheerful

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75

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• The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.

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  Running, Men, Wish

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.19, 谷月社

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• One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

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  Hero, Men, Be A Man

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