Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.

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  Dream, Can Do

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• How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

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  Men, Years, Done

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.140, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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• 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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• Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

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  Love, Life, Girl

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Oxenford (2013). “The Auto-Biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

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  Wings, Curiosity, Add

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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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• To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

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  Understanding, Half, Wells

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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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• Habit is the most imperious of all masters.

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  Habit, Masters

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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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• 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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• The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

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  Beautiful, Understanding, Grows

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• Live dangerously and you live right.

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  Life, Success, Insightful

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre (1957). “Goethe's Faust, Part 1: New American Version”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

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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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• Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

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  Limits, Indifferent, Exceed

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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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• Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

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  Strive, Concentration

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.117

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• When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

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  Beautiful, Men, Essence

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• Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

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  Birthday, Errors, Long

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• Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

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  Common Sense, Advantage, Sensible

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• One errs as long as one strives.

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  Errors, Long, Strive

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• A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

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  Government, People, Faults

  "Conversations with Goethe". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Peter Eckermann, 1836.

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• We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.

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  Respect, Character, Men

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