Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 5

• Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Keeping Secrets, Wish, Kept Secrets

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• That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

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  Life, Campaigns, Way

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• If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.

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  People, Criticize, Ifs

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• Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

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  Night, Half, Other Half

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• The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

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  Beauty, Simplicity, Tranquility

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.76

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• A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

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  Learning, Men, Understanding

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• It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

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  Marriage, Husband, Wife

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• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

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  Ignorance, Commitment, Ideas

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• Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

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  Art, Trust Yourself, Art Of Living

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1965). “Goethe's Faust, Parts I and II”

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• Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

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  Wickedness, World, Neglect

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2011). “The Sorrows of Young Werther (少年維特的煩惱)”, p.13, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

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  Learning, Experience, Practicals

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

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• Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

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  Life, Witty, Clever

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• Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

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  Writing, History, Sin

  "Mitteilungen ueber GoetheBo". Book by Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer, II. 9, 1810.

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• One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

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  Deceiving, Deceived, Oneself

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• Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

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  Strong, Desire, Distrust

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• The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

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  Criticism, Ridiculous, Synthetic

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• Precaution is better than cure.

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  Safety, Cures, Precaution

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• Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

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  Men, Ungrateful, Weakness

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.82, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

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  Being Yourself, Being Single, Gay

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• Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!

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  Change, Yesterday, Today

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• Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

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  Inspirational, Encouragement, Persistence

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• Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

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  Fun, Character, Men

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• It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe

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  Doe

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• Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

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  Confused, Men, Suffering

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• To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

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  Men, Capacity, Overestimate

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