Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 56

• Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Fear, Lying

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

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• A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Taken, Greatness, Men

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• Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Learning, Fortune, Good Fortune

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• Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Anecdotes, World

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• We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Equality, Equal

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.8, Princeton University Press

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• To act is easy; to think is hard.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Easy, Hard

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75

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• I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Imagination, Swim

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.7, e-artnow

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• For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

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  Sex, Butterfly, Sacrifice

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• Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

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  Inspirational, Done, Circumstances

  "Italian Journey". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, March 16, 1787.

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• The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

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  Inspiration, Thinking, Analysis

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• Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Religious, Reality, Tolerance

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1897). “Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction”

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• A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Family, Men, Names

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• There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Color, Perception

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• All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

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  Independent, Independence, Needs

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• If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!

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  Beautiful, Moments, Miscellaneous

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• A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Kings, Son

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Faust, Part One”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• The angles even
  Draw strength from gazing on its glance,
  Though none its meaning fathom may;
  The world's unwither'd countenance
  Is bright as at creation's day.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  May, Sun, Gazing

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• My worthy friend, gray are all theories
  And green alone Life's golden tree.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Tree, Golden

  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.163, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

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  Perseverance, Power, Purpose

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• Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hopes of new pleasures, is it worth while to dress and undress? Does the sun shine on me today that I may reflect on yesterday? That I may endeavor to foresee and control what can neither be foreseen nor controlled - the destiny of tomorrow?

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  Life, Morning, Destiny

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (18??). “The Works of J. W. Von Goethe”

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• Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  College, Doctors, Years

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

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• The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.

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  Success, Mistake, Errors

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• I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doubt, Literature, Praying

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• What is not fully understood is not possessed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Understanding, Understood

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