Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 70

• [W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Expression, Giving, Excellence

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• Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Waste, Courageous, Vain

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• In the colored reflection we have Life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Reflection, What Is Life

  "Faust".

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• Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

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  Devil, Faust, Caught

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

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• Every offense is avenged on earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Justice, Earth, Offense

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• One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.

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  Educational, One Love

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• The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Mind, Noble

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1858). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.57

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• I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.

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  Anxious, Please

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• I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias.
  [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Promise, Bias

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• He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, Mind, Obscurity

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• Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspiration, Shining, Glitter

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• Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Hands, Interesting

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• A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Perfect, Sensitive

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 609, 1998.

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• The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

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  Simple, Desire, Easy

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 611, 1998.

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• A world without love would be no world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Would Be, World, Without Love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Luke (1988). “Roman elegies ; and the Diary”

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• Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

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  Believe, Majority, Persuasion

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• The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Needs

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• No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

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  Country, Garden, Doe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.791, Delphi Classics

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• Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Men, Clouds

  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.220

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• Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

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  Feelings, Use, Moments

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• If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

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  Doe, Management, Individual

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• Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

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  Thinking, Purpose, Persuasion

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• Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

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  Book, Judging, Competent

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

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