Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 67

• All understanding begins in wonder!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Understanding, Wonder

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• How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

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  Action, Introspection, Knowing Oneself

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• Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Exercise, Discovery, Long

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3588, Delphi Classics

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• If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Law, Study

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.86, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words.
  [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort
  Der Frauen weit gefuhrt.]

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  Women, Noble Man, Gentle

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• Man usually believes, if only words he hears,
  That also with them goes material for thinking.
  [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort,
  Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]

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  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• The rabble also vent their rage in words.
  [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]

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  Lust, Mit, Rage

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• Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

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  Youth, Instruments, Chosen

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• Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages,
  That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone!
  If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him,
  His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Brother, Suffering, Pages

  "Roman Elegies". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Elegy 2 (First version), 1902.

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• With knowledge comes more doubt.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doubt

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• The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

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  Reading, Men, Evil

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• Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent."
  Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.

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  Lying, Love You, Thinking

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• If you have science and art,
  You also have religion;
  But if you don't have them,
  You better have religion.

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  Art, Science, Religion

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• Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

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  Art, Nature, Mean

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• Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

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  Art, Nature, Degrees

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• Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

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  Stories, Literature, Moral

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• Association with women is the basis of good manners.

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  Women, Good Man, Association

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• National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.

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  Mean, Age, Doe

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• Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

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  Science, Becoming, Awareness

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• Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

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  Distance, Science, Detours

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• It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

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  Government, People, Revolution

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• The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

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  Soul, Despair, New Life

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• We have time enough if we but use it aright

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  Use, Enough, Ifs

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• Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

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  Character, World, Tempest

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• Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

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  Special, Devil, Hell

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