Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 50

• Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.817, Delphi Classics

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• Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Vanity, Envy, Feelings

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• What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Heart, Poetry

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

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• What matters in art is not thinking but making.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Thinking, What Matters

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• Yet through delivery orators succeed,
  I feel that I am far behind indeed.
  [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck,
  Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Oratory, Succeed, Delivery

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• Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving, Solitude

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• The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ocean, Sea, Land

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “The Poems of Goethe”, p.380

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• Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier.
  Each animal is an end in itself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Animal, Evolution, Ends

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• Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Bird, Temptation

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• A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Good Man, Way

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• To a valet no man is a hero.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hero, Men, Valet

  "Elective Affinities". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, II. 5., 1809.

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• And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Fool, Poor

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.15

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• It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bible, Meditation, Fruit

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1824). “Memoirs of Goethe:”, p.410

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• Let us live, while we are alive!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Alive

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• Life's objective is life itself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Objectives

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• Mastery passes often for egotism.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mastery, Egotism

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• I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Facts, Shows

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• Love can do much, but duty more.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Duty, Can Do

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• Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

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  Time, Good Life, Insperational

  "Goethe's Art of Living".

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• There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Spring, Heart

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• The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Birthday, Science, Age

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• If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Men, Should Have

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

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• What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

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  Destiny, Men, Suffering

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.45, 谷月社

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• Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Appreciation, Attitude, Tolerance

  "It will take more than tolerance to protect human rights" by Daniel Barenboim, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016.

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• Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Age, Toil

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