Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 64

• The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

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  Prejudice, Kind, Bans

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• If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

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  Country, Law, Citizens

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• What is the universal?
  The single case.
  What is the particular?
  Millions of cases.

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  Cases, Particular, Universal

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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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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!

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  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.

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  Motivation, Mistake, Imagination

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• For the nature of women is closely allied to art

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  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.

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  Courage, Color, Hypocrisy

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• Blood is a very special juice.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Friendship, Trying, Found

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• Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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!

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  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.

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  Heaven, Path, Steps

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

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  Good Man, Elements, Manners

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

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• Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

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  Average, Enemy, Surrender

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• Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

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  Art, Book, Reading

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• Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

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  Perfect, Might, Human Nature

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.81, Ravenio Books

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