Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 9

• All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

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  Love, Marriage, Being Yourself

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1949). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”

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• One errs as long as one strives.

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  Errors, Long, Strive

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• Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

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  Inspirational, Faith, Retreat

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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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• If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

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  Philosophical, Thought Provoking, Together

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3573, Delphi Classics

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• To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

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  Men, Capacity, Overestimate

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• The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

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  Circles, Realizing, Turns

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• The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

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  Fear, Mean, Race

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

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  Life, Witty, Clever

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• People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

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  Wise, Years, People

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.477, Ravenio Books

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• Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

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  Hope, No Hope, Future Life

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• Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

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  Courage, Honor, Lost Everything

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• The coward only threatens when he is safe.

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  Coward, Literature, Safe

  "Torquato Tasso". II. 3. 207, 1790.

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• What you can do, or think you can, begin it.

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  Gymnastics, Thinking, Decision Making

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Lose The Day Loitering”

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• Stupidity is without anxiety.

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  Stupidity, Anxiety

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.177

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• The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

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  Lying, Ideas, Originality

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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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• A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

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  Respect, Men, Thinking

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (18??). “The Works of J. W. Von Goethe”

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• It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

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  Self, Firsts, Favourite

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• Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

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  Communication, Views, Achievement

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

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• Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

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  Growth, Progress, Lines

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• Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

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  Tree, Green, Theory

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• He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

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  Art, Science, Religion

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• People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

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  Nature, People, Listening

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• Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

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  "'Der Versuch als Vermittler von Objekt und Subjekt' ('The Attempt as Mediator of Object and Subject')". Essay by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1792.

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