Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 49

• He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doe, Language, Knows

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• The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Positive, Patience

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• Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element.
  Time is itself an element.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Elements, Dies

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• The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Strikes, Familiar

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• If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Christian, Jesus, Earth

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• The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Flower, Illusion, Fade Away

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.38, Princeton University Press

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• Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Woe, Chance, Reason

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• The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Religion, Atheism

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• Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Agriculture, Sowing, Farming

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• Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Philosophy, Rights

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• What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom.
  [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Spirit, Bosoms

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• Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Self, Faults

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1858). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.197

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• Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dog, Criticism, Strikes

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• If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doe, Culture, World

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.189

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• All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sleep, Aristocracy, Noble

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.230, Ravenio Books

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• Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strive, Strife

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• All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Tree, Green, Golden

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• Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

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  Strong, Looks, Use

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• Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

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  Progress, Culture, World

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• Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hypocrite, Goal, Purpose

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• Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Driven, Method, Empiricism

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• The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Evil, Left

  "Faust". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, I. 6. 174, 1808.

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• Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Succeed

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 311-13, Faust, I. 7. 73, 1922.

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• Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Opportunity, Men, Moments

  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.161, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!

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  Prayer, Lying, Past

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