Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 47

• Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Light, May

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• Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

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  Happiness, Running, Laughter

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• Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

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  Sublime, Life Is, Conquer

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• There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

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  Past, Longing, Something New

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• How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

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  Kings, Cases, Chiefs

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.33, 谷月社

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• One must keep repeating the Truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth

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• Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.

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  Life, Human Life, Humans

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• You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

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  Country, Study, Language

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

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• Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

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  Happiness, Spring, Moderation

  "When did moderate become a political dirty word?" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. April 1, 2012.

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• Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

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  Sympathy, Ordinary, Want

  Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1877). “Correspondence Between Schiller and Goethe, from 1794 to 1805”

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• He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

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  Thinking, Doe, Imagine

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• Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it

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  Helping, Lord, Help Me

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• The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

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  Happiness, Joy, Lasts

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, IV. 5. 9, April 6, 1779.

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• Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed

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  Dream, Minutes, Can Do

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Anster, Harry Clarke (2013). “Faust”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• True happiness springs from moderation.

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  Spring, True Happiness, Moderation

  "Die Naturliche Tochter". II. 5. 79, 1803.

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• Colour itself is a degree of darkness.

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  Darkness, Degrees, Colour

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1840). “Theory of Colours”, p.31

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• Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

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  World, May, Concern

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• Our earthly ball a peopled garden.

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  Garden, Balls

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.24

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• Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

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  Science, Men, Healthy

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• The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.

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  Past, Media, Soul

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.114, Univ of California Press

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• Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

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  Eye, Light, Doe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Theory of Colours”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

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  Character, Development, Tests

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.46

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• I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

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  Speak, Praise, Speakers

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• Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

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  Compassion, Sparrows, Feels

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• It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.

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  Men, Finals, Causes

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.347

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