Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 46

• If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Sick, Literature

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• Noble be man, helpful and good!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Luxury, Noble

  "Das Gottliche" (1783)

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• Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Political, Campaigns

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

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• At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Real, Use, Poet

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.256, Ravenio Books

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• If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Party, Giving, Doe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.427

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• A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

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  Learning, Men, Trying

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3588, Delphi Classics

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• The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Taken, Men, Grieving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1893). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.32, Library of Alexandria

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• We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Errors, Faults

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• Over all the mountain tops is peace.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Peace, Mountain, Mountain Top

  'Wanderers Nachtlied' (1821)

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• Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Errors, Sea, Faust

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• If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Angel, Devil, Prove

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• What man does not know,
  Or has not thought of,
  Wanders in the night
  Through the labyrinth of the mind.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Night, Men, Mind

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• Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

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  Thinking, Youth, Mankind

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• Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Want, Painting

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• The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Hardest, Hardest Thing

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• What sort of God would it be, who only pushed from without.

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• Wishes are premonitions of abilities.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Premonition, Ability

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• The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Important, Particular

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• A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inexplicable, Phenomenon, Remains

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• The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Expression, Perfect

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• Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.

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  Men, Self, World

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• I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

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  Names, Bears, Collectives

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• Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Father, Winning

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• Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.

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  Night, Clouds, Light

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• The history of a man is in his character.

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  Character, Men

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