Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 41

• For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.

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  People, Able, Life Is

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• The present moment is a powerful goddess.

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  Inspirational, Time, Powerful

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• We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.

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  Work, Strive, Strife

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• Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days.
  [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen,
  Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]

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  World, May, Prosperity

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• Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

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  Time, Awkward, Youth

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Parke Godwin (1848). “The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life”, p.59

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• Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

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  Time, Heart, Honor

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1924). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.217, Library of Alexandria

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• Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

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  Freedom, Race, Democracy

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• How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

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  Happiness, Self, Trying

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• Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

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  Intelligence, Fool, Poor

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• What we do not understand we do not possess.

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  Education, Wisdom, Learning

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.294, Courier Corporation

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• Words express neither objects nor ourselves.

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  Silence, Objects

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• There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

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  Army, Doe, Moral

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• Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

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  Brain, Spirit, Poor

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1908). “Faust: Freely Adapted from Goethe's Dramatic Poem”

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• The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

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  Learning, Thoughtful, Growth

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

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• A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

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  Soul, Noble, Nobility

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• From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.

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  Life, Mountain Ranges, Dust

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

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• To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

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  Appreciate, Noble, Literature

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• The fine emotions whence our lives we mold
  Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.

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  Life, Lying, Dumb

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• It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.

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  Life, Heaven, Arms

  "Faust". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1808.

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• If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

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  Positive, Attitude, Positivity

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• Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

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  Perseverance, Thee, Endure

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• I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

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  Frozen, Paper, Architecture

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• And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

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  Understanding, World, Way

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• Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.

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  War, Unhappy, Politics

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

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• Age merely shows what children we remain.

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  Children, Age, Literature

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

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