Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 22

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving, Doubt, Enough

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• Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence;
  The last result of wisdom stamps it true;
  He only earns his freedom and existence
  Who daily conquers them anew.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Freedom, Persistence

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1912). “Faust”

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• Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Unrest, Uncertainty

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

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Skins, Core

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doors, Clean, Streets

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  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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• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, May, Path

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Simple, Simplicity

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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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spiritual, Eye, Shine On

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• When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Praise, Equal

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strong, Temptation, Want

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Lying, Errors

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Progress, Development

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• What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Father, Inheritance

  "Faust". Act I, scene i, 1808.

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• Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self, Literature, Spoken Word

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• It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Light, Color

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• I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Memorable, Unrequited Love, Feelings

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2000). “Selected Works: Including The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Italian Journey, Faust”, Everyman's Library

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Christian, Feet, Together

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Path, Good Person, Strive

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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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Eye, Light

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hate, War, Hatred

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• I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Crowds, Let Me

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Faust”, p.13, Sheba Blake Publishing

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thank God, Burden, Thee

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• A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Giving, Mind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.115, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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