Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 38

• Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Struggle, Two, Soul

  Faust pt. 1 "Vor dem Thor" (1808)

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• Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Friends, Faults, Individual

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• The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wealth, Burden

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• The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Book, Years, People

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• In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Learning, Study

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.78, Ravenio Books

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• When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

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  Marriage, Way, Married

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• For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

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  Mistake, Long, People

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• Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character.

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  Strong, Character, Errors

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.346, Ravenio Books

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• Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

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  Taken, Pieces, Construction

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• Let there be truth between us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Truth Is

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• Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thank God, Thankfulness, Release

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• One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Vain

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 3, 1786.

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• There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Teacher, Teaching, Scholar

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• Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Adults, Literature

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• One must be something, in order to do something.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Order

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.324, Ravenio Books

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• We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Past, History, Destroyed

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W. B. Rönnfeldt (1898*). “Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims”

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• Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Littles, Fool, Poor

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.32, e-artnow

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• I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Intelligent, Minorities, Sides

  "Conversation with Friedrich von Müller" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, March 6, 1828.

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• Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Long, Enthusiasm, Carried Away

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3538, Delphi Classics

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• The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

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  Knowledge, Voice, Fugue

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.63, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

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  Science, Perception, Gone

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.104, Ravenio Books

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• The bed of flowers
  Loosens amain,
  The beauteous snowdrops
  Droop o'er the plain.
  The crocus opens
  Its glowing bud,
  Like emeralds others,
  Others, like blood.
  With saucy gesture
  Primroses flare,
  And roguish violets,
  Hidden with care;
  And whatsoever
  There stirs and strives,
  The Spring's contented,
  If works and thrives.

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  Spring, Flower, Glowing

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.2888, Delphi Classics

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• Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Casts, Petty

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• What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.

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  Path

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• Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.

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  Doubt, Fields, Pioneers

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