Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 6

• How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Trying, Know Yourself

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• To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Purpose, Literature

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• Do not hurry; do not rest.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational

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• A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Marriage, Loss, Men

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• Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, History, Sin

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

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• Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

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  Hate, Envy, Hatred

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• Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

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  Birthday, Errors, Long

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Ungrateful, Weakness

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

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• If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.

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  Heart, Winning, Self

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• The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

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  Eye, Night, Reality

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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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• The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

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  Flower, Honey, Bees

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• I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

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  Disease, Taught, I Have Learned

  Conversations with Goethe Johann Peter Eckermann 17 March (1830).

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• Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.

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  History, Events, Way

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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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• To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

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  Funny Inspirational, Integrity, Inspirational Life

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• I love those who yearn for the impossible.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Philosophy, Life Is Good

  "Faust, Part 2". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act II, "Classical Walpurgis Night", 1832.

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• To have more, you must first be more.

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  Military, Firsts

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• No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

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  Children, Believe, Cake

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.32, Penguin UK

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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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• Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.

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  Spring, Winter, Thinking

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.980, Delphi Classics

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• Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

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  Individual, Mankind, Abstraction

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doe

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• I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Acceptance, Take Me As I Am, Introvert

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• Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Justice, Diversity

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

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