Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 58

• The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.

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  Music, Art, Doe

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• For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

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  Success, Confidence, Men

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• It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.

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  Men, Healthy, Mind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.24, 谷月社

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• Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?

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  World, Pilgrim, Wanderers

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.78, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

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  Soul, Eternity, Activity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.108

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• Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

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  Heart, Paradise, Delight

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.25, 谷月社

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• Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

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  Sickness, Classicism

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• ‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

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  Pain, Fate, Should Have

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.92, Booklassic

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• I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.

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  Sweet, Chords, Sweet Music

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1853). “The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres, with a Sketch of Goethe's Life. By E. A. Bowring”, p.160

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• When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

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  Art, Flying, Finals

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• Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.

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  Women, Apples, Golden

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.324, Ravenio Books

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• Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

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  Ego, Saving, Way

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• The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

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  Inspirational, Genius, Resources

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• Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.

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  Peace, Meditation, Bird

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• Come my little one, and give me your hand.

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  Hands, Giving, Dying

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• The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.

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  Nature, Experts, Life Is

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• I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

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  Bible, Jesus, Shining

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• Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

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  Men, Healthy Habits, Comfort

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• Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.

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  Sorrow, Bread, Hours

  'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre' (1795-6) bk. 2, ch. 13 (translated by Carlyle)

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• Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

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  Inspirational, Depth, Height

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• The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove all the quicker to Wiemar, and to Goethe's house. Goethe urged me to go in with him for a while, and I did so. He was in an extremely engaging mood. He talked a great deal about his theory of colors, and of his obstinate opponents; remarking that he was sure that he had done something in this science.

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  Death, Color, House

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.99, Ravenio Books

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• Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

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  Thinking, Use, Language

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• We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

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  Motivational, Success, Giving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.70

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• One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

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  Sweet, Giving, World

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• The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

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  Art, Reality, Causes

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