Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 22

• Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

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  Mind, Profit

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• Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.

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  Skins, Core

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• God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

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  Men, Simple, Simplicity

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• Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

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  Truth, Lying, Errors

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• Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

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  Unrest, Uncertainty

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1889). “Early and miscellaneous letters”

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• Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

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  Nature, Progress, Development

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• Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

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  Destiny, Men, Action

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• Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.

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  Giving, Doubt, Enough

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• The world is full of contradiction.

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  World, Contradiction

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• The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

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  Spiritual, Eye, Shine On

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• One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

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  Time, Management, Enough

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1882). “The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry From My Own Life”, p.394, Library of Alexandria

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• If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

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  Doors, Clean, Streets

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• Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

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  Men, May, Path

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• Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

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  Self, Literature, Spoken Word

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• When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

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  Praise, Equal

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• Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.

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  Pain, Eye, Light

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• Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

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  Hate, War, Hatred

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• Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.

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  Strong, Temptation, Want

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• A good person, striving dimly,
  Is well aware of the right path.

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  Path, Good Person, Strive

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• Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

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  Power, Men, Enough

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3522, Delphi Classics

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• Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

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  Thank God, Burden, Thee

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• He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

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  Stay Strong, Mold, World

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• In art, the best is good enough.

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  Art, Good Enough, Enough

  'Italienische Reise' (1816-17) 3 March 1787

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• I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

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  Science, Men, Errors

  Conversations with Goethe 15 October (1825)

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• The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

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  Christian, Feet, Together

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