Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 3

• Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Frozen, Liquid, Architecture

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• Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

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  Judging, Doe, Judgment

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• If you want to make life easy, make it hard.

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  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Hardest, Hardest Thing

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• A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Slave, Command

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

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• Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

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  Powerful, Men, Thinking

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• Everything is hard before it is easy.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

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  Knowledge, Doubt, Greater

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.24

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• Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

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  Advice, Enjoy, Endure

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• Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

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  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

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  Time, Money, Greatest Wealth

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• There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Self, Deceit

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.525, Delphi Classics

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• Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

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  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.296, Princeton University Press

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• Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

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  Wise, Live Life, Men

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• We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

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  Change, Yoga, New Beginnings

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• Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

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  Stupidity, Reason, Humans

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• Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

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  Kindness, Together, Golden

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• The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

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  Love, Beauty, Loneliness

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• Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

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  People, Belief, Opinion

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• It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

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  Life, Thanksgiving, Blessed

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• If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

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  Want, Treats, Traits

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• A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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• The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

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  Freedom, Government, History

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.99, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

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  Truth, Lying, Errors

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• Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

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  Truth, Lying, School

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