Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 7

• If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

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  Life, Reality, Inspire

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• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

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  Love, Inspiring, Marriage

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• You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

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  Men, Consistency, Wavering

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• Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.

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  Men, Looks, Way

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• Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

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  Caring, Individuality, Faults

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.761, Delphi Classics

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• We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

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  Time, Age, Faults

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• The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

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  Art, Lying, Men

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• Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

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  Wings, Curiosity, Add

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• What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

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  Relationship, Honesty, Yoga

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• Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!

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  Change, Yesterday, Today

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• Wisdom is found only in truth.

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  Wisdom, Truth, Found

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• Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.

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  Dream, Can Do

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• If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

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  Men, Mind, Wish

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• It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

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  Life, Success, Running

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.65

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• Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

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  Love, Choices, Endless

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• To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

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  Literature, Fancy, Conform

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• Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

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  Matter, Spirit, Action

  "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Novel".

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• Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

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  Tattoo, Body, Return

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.67, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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  Inspirational, Life, Trust

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• What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

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  Eye, Simple, Hardest

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• Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

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  Running, Giving, Receiving

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• By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

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  Strength, Nature, Defects

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

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• Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

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  Love, Life, Marriage

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• When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

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  Marriage, Husband, Wife

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• If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

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  Believe, Doubt, Belief

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