Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 37

• The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

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  Morning, Mind, Fool

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• What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

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  God, Powerful, Omnipotence

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• Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

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  Fancy, Poet, Produce

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• Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

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  Time, Circles, Debtors

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.760, Delphi Classics

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• The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

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  Self, Giving, Accountability

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• Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

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  Hero, Men, Stamps

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.114

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• With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

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  Art, Oratory, Littles

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (2013). “Faust”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

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  Garden, Silence, Here And There

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.493, Delphi Classics

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• Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

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  Opportunity, Life Is

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• He who can not learn to love must flatter.

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  Can Not

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• Every step of life shows much caution is required.

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  Literature, Steps, Caution

  "The Miracle of Self-Love: The Secret Key to Open All Doors". Book by Barbel Mohr, Manfred Mohr (p. 115), 2012.

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• It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

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  Book, Believe, Heart

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

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• You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

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  Success, War, Suffering

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• In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

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  Ignorance, Heart, Desire

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.46, e-artnow

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• To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting

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  Encouragement, Smoking, Want

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• And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

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  Song, World, Saddened

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• The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

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  Doe, Judgment, Deceiving

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• He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

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  Crazy, Errors, Long

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.74

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• The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.

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  Happiness, Cheerful, Social

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• When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

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  Men, Be You

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• Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

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  Science, Technology, Mind

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• If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

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  Gratitude, Thinking, Debt

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2005). “Elective Affinities”, p.225, Penguin UK

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• The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

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  Art, Science, Technology

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• The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

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  Nature, Artist, Slave

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.242, Ravenio Books

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• Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

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  Teacher, Great Teacher

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