Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 29

• The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

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  Aging, Ordeals, Grows

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• Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.

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• What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.

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  Men, Envy, He Man

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3574, Delphi Classics

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• Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.

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  Children, Giving, And Love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

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  Men, Want, Way

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• Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.

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  Israel, People, Goal

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• When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

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  Inspirational, Peace, Men

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• A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

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  Fashion, Men, Vanity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.48

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• When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

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  Knowledge, Intelligent, People

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.74, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

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  Love, Learning, Understanding

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.160, Ravenio Books

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• Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

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  Flow, Influence, Music Is

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• Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

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  Truth, Eye, Trying

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• To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Men

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• He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

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  Real, New Friendship, Doe

  "Torquato Tasso". I. 3. 68, 1790.

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• Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.

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  Two, Giving, Weakness

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• This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

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  Love, Friendship, Romantic

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• Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

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  Beauty, Art, Principles

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

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  Addresses, Remedy

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• We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

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  Father, Son, Age

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• All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

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  Luck, Threshold, Delightful

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• I will be lord over myself.

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  Lord

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1902). “Life of J.W. von Goethe, by G. H. Lewes”

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• The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

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  Motivational, Lying, Adversity

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.

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  Doe, Helping, Moments

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• Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

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  Done, Each Day, Evening

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• The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.

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  Pride, Rose

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.2696, Delphi Classics

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