Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 7

• I love those who yearn for the impossible.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Philosophy, Life Is Good

  "Faust, Part 2". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act II, "Classical Walpurgis Night", 1832.

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• To have more, you must first be more.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Military, Firsts

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• To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Purpose, Literature

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• No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Believe, Cake

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.32, Penguin UK

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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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  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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• The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Action, Highest

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• Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Judging, Has Beens

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• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspiring, Marriage

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Tattoo, Body, Return

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

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• There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

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  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Justice, Diversity

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

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• The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Greatness, Safety, Risk

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• Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.

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  History, Events, Way

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• I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Acceptance, Take Me As I Am, Introvert

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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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Looks, Way

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Choices, Endless

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strength, Nature, Defects

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

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• Every second is of infinite value.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Helping, Infinite

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• Wisdom is found only in truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Truth, Found

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• Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hate, Envy, Hatred

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• 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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• The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wine, Want, Rich

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• The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

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  Mistake, Fall, Men

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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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