Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 48

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

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  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.

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  Errors, Sea, Faust

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

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  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.

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  Men, Want, Painting

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

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  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.

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  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.

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  Men, Important, Particular

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• A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.

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  Inexplicable, Phenomenon, Remains

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

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  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.

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  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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• 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.

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  Eye, Light, May

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• Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

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  Men, Political, Campaigns

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

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

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  Thinking, Sick, Literature

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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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