Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 31

• One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Loses

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• Writing is busy idleness.

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  Writing, Busy, Idleness

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles E. Passage (1980). “Goethe's plays”, Frederick Ungar

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• Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

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  Light, Sound, Heavenly

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• The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

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  History, Political, Conflict

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• Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

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  Looks, Half, Flattery

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• The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one.

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  Past, World, Daring

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• Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

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  Fall, Men, Silence

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.53

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• if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Treasure, Fragile

  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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• Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.

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  Wise, Unity, Guides

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• A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

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  Attitude, Men, Mirrors

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 39, 1998.

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• Collectors are happy people.

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  People, Happy People, Collectors

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• The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

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  Beautiful, Different, Thousand

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• One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

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  Happiness, Character, Men

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• Where there are no women there are no good manners

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  Good Man, Manners, Good Manners

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• No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

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  Thinking, Light, Enemy

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• It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.

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  Beauty, Appreciate, Impossible

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• All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

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  Metaphor, Transitory

  "Faust, Part 2". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 5, 1832.

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• He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

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  Men, Impossible, Please

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.43, Princeton University Press

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• The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

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  Eye, Difficult, Simplest

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• No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.

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  Art, Skills, Tricks

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• The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.

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  Reflection, Thinking, Mirrors

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1941). “Faust: Parts one and two”

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• Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

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  Life, Art, Opportunity

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• Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

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  Ignorant, Language, Foreign Language

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• Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

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  Heart, Heaven, Religion

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• Giving is the business of the rich.

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  Generosity, Giving, Rich

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