Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 4

• Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

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  Heart, Sensitive Person, Giving

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• Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

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  Inspirational, Expectations, Cheated

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• Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

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  Infinite, Moments, Hours

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• A joy shared is a joy doubled.

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  Friendship, Real, Real Friends

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• Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

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  Caring, Individuality, Faults

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.761, Delphi Classics

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• Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

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  Time, Thinking, Imagine

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• Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

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  Inspirational, Change, Clever

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• Life is too short to drink bad wine.

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  Life Is Too Short, Wine, Vineyards

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• The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

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  Reading, Literature, Decline

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.109

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• The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

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  Happiness, Men, Inner Peace

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• Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

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  Surprise, Christ, Lord

  "Venetian Epigrams". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Jerome Rothenberg, 1790.

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• If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

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  Philosophical, Thought Provoking, Together

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3573, Delphi Classics

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• The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

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  Strength, Grief, Unhappy Person

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• If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

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  Wise, Questions And Answers, Want

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• The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

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  Criticism, Ridiculous, Synthetic

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• That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

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  Life, Campaigns, Way

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• If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

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  Forgiveness, Eye, Practice

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• Few people have the imagination for reality.

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  Inspiration, Reality, People

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• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

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  Ignorance, Commitment, Ideas

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• Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

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  Character, World, Quiet

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• The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Nature

  "'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre' ('Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship')". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1796.

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• Beware of a man of one book.

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  Wise, Book, Men

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• There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

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  Baby, Children, Wings

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• No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

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  Communication, Misunderstood, Society

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• Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

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  Keeping Secrets, Wish, Kept Secrets

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