Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 33

• There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.

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  Foundation, Doe, Moral

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• Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.

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  Light, Doe, Hammers

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• If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

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  Demand, Accomplish, Ifs

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• The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

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  Vices, Masters, Valet

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.113

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• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.-
  Henry Ward Beecher -
  I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

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  Love, How To Love, Worship

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• Miracle is the pet child of faith.

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  Children, Miracle, Pet

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1859). “Faust: A Dramatic Poem”, p.51

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• The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.

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  Artist, Artistic, Craftsman

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• Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

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  Change, Two, Design

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• The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

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  Stupidity, Needs, World

  Conversations with Goethe Johann Peter Eckermann 17 March (1830).

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• One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

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  Song, Everyday, Speak

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• My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

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  Writing, Sleep, Giving

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• There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

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  Art, Patriotic, Science

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

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• A clever man commits no minor blunders.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Witty

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• It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Past

  "Faust: A Dramatic Poem".

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• I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

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  Country, Travel, Quality

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• The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

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  Men, Masters, Prove

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• There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

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  Men, Two, Feelings

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• The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

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  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

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  Mold, World, Willpower

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• Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

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  Accomplishment, Desire, Ability

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• The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.

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  Special, Use, Study

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• Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

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  Art, Strong, Profound

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.76

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• Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

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  Heart, Literature, Should

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• Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

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  Inspirational, Venture, Fixed

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1882). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels: From the German...”

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• The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

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  Real, Knowledge, Masters

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.118, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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