Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 42

• To create something you must be something.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Mental Strength

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.84

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• It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually only amuses himself or makes sport of us, as, for instance, the naturalist or historian. But a single action or event is interesting, not because it is explainable, but because it is true.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sports, Science, Interesting

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• Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

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  Complicated, Imagine, Comprehension

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1932). “Goethe's poems and aphorisms”

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• He who cannot love must learn to flatter.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Famous Love

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• Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

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  Love, Wonderful, Form

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• Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

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  Two, Confusion, World

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elizabeth Mayer, Louise Bogan, Wystan Hugh Auden (1971). “The sorrows of young Werther, and Novella”

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• Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.

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  Nature, Tired, Entering

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

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• Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

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  Art, Short Life, Opportunity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75

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• Tomorrow sees undone, what happens not to-day; Still forward press, nor never tire! The possible, with steadfast trust, Resolve should be by the forelock grasp. Then she will ne'er let go her clasp, And labors on, because she must.

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  Trust, Letting Go, Tomorrow

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• Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

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• Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

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  Art, Doe, Determine

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• You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Feelings, Knows

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p.270, Faust, I. 1. 182, 1922.

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• Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Oratory, Succeed, Delivery

  BookCaps, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.50, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

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  Unity, Universal, Commonplace

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• A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.

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  Flower, Gay, Light

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• I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Humorous, Should, Knows

  Quoted in Johann Peter Eckermann, Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life (1836 - 1848) (entry for 10 Apr. 1829)

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• It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world.

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  Errors, Depth, Doe

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• Love grants in a moment
  What toil can hardly achieve in an age.
  [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe
  Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]

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  Love, Age, Toil

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• The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

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  Happiness, Thinking, Equanimity

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• A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Kissing, Answers, Slap In The Face

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1948). “The permanent Goethe”

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• One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

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  Inspirational, Hands, Mind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Barker Fairley (1970). “Faust”

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• Sing it not in mournful numbers.

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  Life, Numbers

  "Wilhelm Meister, Philine" in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

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  People, Giving, Mind

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• The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.

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  Race, Weakness, Dizzy

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• Art will always be art.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art

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