Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 20

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Justice, Sides

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

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  Birthday, Men, Years

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

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Battle, Monsters

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

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  Men, Perfect, Heaven

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every beginning is cheerful.

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  Cheerful

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

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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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• Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Men, Wish

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

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  Nature, Heart, Men

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• Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

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  Country, Teacher, Teaching

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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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• Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

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  Hypocrite, Mean, Use

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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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