Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 66

• Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Light, Oil, Shining

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2017). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• As our inclinations, so our opinions.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Opinion, Inclination

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• Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Errors, Care

  Conversations with Goethe 15 October (1825)

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• What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Talent, Forefathers

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• If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Work, Lasts, Form

  Letter to Eckermann, February 04, 1829.

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• Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Courage, Responsibility

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• I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Freedom, Aversion, Apostles

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• It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Sight, Discovery

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.74, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Men, Secret

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3576, Delphi Classics

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• Beauty can never really understand itself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.79, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Rights, People, Giving

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

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• Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ideas, Firsts, Visitors

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• Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Faults, Individual, Certain

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.115, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Ignorant, Language

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.112

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• It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Errors, Liberty

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.73, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Men, Long

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3587, Delphi Classics

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• What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Liberty, Printing, Freedom Of The Press

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• Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
  [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht in den Himmel wachsen.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Taken, Sky, Tree

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• The trouble is small, the fun is great.
  [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fun, Trouble, Gross

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• There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth

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• The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.
  [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach
  In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Race, Dizzy, Weakness

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• Wisdom is only found in truth.
  [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Found, Dies

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• If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Deeds, Noble

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• When toward the Devil's Hose we tread,
  Woman's a thousand steps behind.
  [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus
  Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Devil, Hats

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• For the nature of a women is closely allied to art.
  [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen
  Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Women, Mit

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