Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 63

• Why go further and further,
  Look, happiness is right here.
  Learn how to grab hold of luck,
  For luck is always there.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Luck, Looks

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• Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Hair, Wind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1832). “Faustus: from the German of Goethe”, p.76

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• When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fall, Winter, Ideas

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.16, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doe, Disease, Daggers

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.21, 谷月社

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• The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Artist, Publicity, May

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 2014.

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• It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Daily Tasks, Insulting, England

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• The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Men, Thinking

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3589, Delphi Classics

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• It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Math, World, Statistics

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• The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Philosophy, Mistake

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.139, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• How fair doth Nature
  Appear again!
  How bright the sunbeams!
  How smiles the plain!
  The flow'rs are bursting
  From ev'ry bough,
  And thousand voices
  Each bush yields now.
  And joy and gladness
  Fill ev'ry breast!
  Oh earth!-oh sunlight!
  Oh rapture blest!
  Oh love! oh loved one!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Yield, Voice, Joy

  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.79

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• Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivation, Mistake, Imagination

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• For the nature of women is closely allied to art

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Nature

  "Faust". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, II. 1, 1808.

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• Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Courage, Color, Hypocrisy

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• Blood is a very special juice.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Blood, Special, Juice

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (2011). “Faust”, p.135, Bantam Classics

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• There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Lying, Character

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• I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Friendship, Trying, Found

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• Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sorrow, Alas

  "The Natural Daughter". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, II. 3. 17, 1803.

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• Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Marriage, Society, Foundation

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• As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

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  Inspirational, Courage, Dark

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• Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fashion, Religion, Enough

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

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• As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment.

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  Character, School, People

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

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• These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Astrology, May, Causes

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1911). “Poetry and Truth: From My Own Life”

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• Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Blow, Blue, Wind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Novel”, p.229

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• And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heaven, Path, Steps

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• The society of women is the element of good manners.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Good Man, Elements, Manners

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

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