Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 32

• People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

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  People, Peculiar, Spirituality

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  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 miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Running, Believe, Wheat

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• Giving is the business of the rich.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Generosity, Giving, Rich

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• Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, April 6, 1779.

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• Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

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  Photography, Stories, Literature

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• I call architecture frozen music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Badass, Bad Ass

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.282

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• I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation
  on which alone my happiness rests.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Jesus, Men, Names

  "Goethe: Five Studies". Book by Albert Schweizer, p. 53, 1961.

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• I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

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  Hate, People, Politics

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.100

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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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• True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

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  Humility, Suffering And Death, Religion

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• Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

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  Beautiful, Flower, Garden

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

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• If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Literature

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• We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.

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  Moving, Heart, Sleep

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• All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

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  Men, Would Be, Lord

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• Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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  Life, Character, Streams

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• On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

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  Success, Men, Discipline

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• There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

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  Ideas, Action, Capable

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• If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.

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  Misery, Ifs

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• Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Genius, Mediocrity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1868). “Novels and Tales by Goethe”, p.153

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• Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

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  Self, Action, Contemplation

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• Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

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  Solitude, Innovation, Facts

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• Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

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  Faith, Needs, Satisfaction

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• It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

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  Deceived Us, Deceiving, Deceived

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1932). “Goethe's poems and aphorisms”

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