Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

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  Wings, Curiosity, Add

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• Habit is the most imperious of all masters.

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  Habit, Masters

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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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• 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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• Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

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  Motivational, Mind, Tasks

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• The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?

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  Flower, Yield, Suffering

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2017). “The Sorrows of Young Werther (English German Edition, illustrated): Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Englisch Deutsch Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.105, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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

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  Beautiful, Understanding, Grows

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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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• Live dangerously and you live right.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Trust

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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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• Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.

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  Inward, May, Tests

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.57

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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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• The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

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  Trying, Action, Arguing

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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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• What is fruitful alone is true.

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  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1971). “Goethe's color theory”

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• One errs as long as one strives.

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  Errors, Long, Strive

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• Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

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  Light, Illumination, Shadow

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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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