Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 45

• On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Despair, Depth, World

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• Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

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  Children, Parent, Well Mannered

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• I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

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  Weight, Felt, Oppressed

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1815). “The Sorrows of Werter: A Pathetic Story”, p.29

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• The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

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  Poetry, World, Faults

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• Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

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  Thinking, Hands, Decision

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• Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

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  Country, Believe, Thoughtful

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• Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

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  Philosophy, Medicine, Here I Am

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (2011). “Faust”, p.31, Bantam Classics

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• There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance.
  [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]

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  Ignorance, Als, Active

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• Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true;
  We're only genuine children still in Age's season.
  [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht,
  Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]

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  Children, Men, Age

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• To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

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  Love, Two, Literature

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• A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.

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  Patience, Encouragement, Wrinkles

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• In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

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  Lying, Men, Political

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

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• Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

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  Relationship, Way, Should

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• God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Keeping Secrets, Boredom

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1966). “Conversations and encounters”

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• If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Book

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• There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

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  Art, World, Method

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

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• The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.

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  Christian, Soul, Worship

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• Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

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  Nature, Science, Details

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• The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to it, it will be possible to go on for ever inventing plants and know that their existence is logical; that is to say, if they do not actually exist, they could, for they are not the shadowy phantoms of a vain imagination, but possess an inner necessity and truth. The same law will be applicable to all other living organisms.

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  Science, Law, Keys

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• Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.

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  Nature, Spring, Soul

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

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  Mind, Poor, Bits

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• Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

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  Men, World, Finest

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.69, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

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  Art, Too Much, Should

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• Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Agriculture, Golden, Covered

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “The Poems of Goethe”, p.345

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• Noble be man, helpful and good!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Luxury, Noble

  "Das Gottliche" (1783)

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