Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Earth

• As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Death, Dark, Law

• The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Friendship, Nature

  "'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre' ('Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship')". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1796.

• Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Sensitive Person, Giving

• I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Travel, Quality

• What is now the foliage moving?
  Air is still, and hush'd the breeze,
  Sultriness, this fullness loving,
  Through the thicket, from the trees.
  Now the eye at once gleams brightly,
  See! the infant band with mirth
  Moves and dances nimbly, lightly,
  As the morning gave it birth,
  Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Morning, Spring, Moving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “May”

• Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Israel, People, Goal

• Every offense is avenged on earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Justice, Earth, Offense

• If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Christian, Jesus, Earth

• How fair doth Nature
  Appear again!
  How bright the sunbeams!
  How smiles the plain!
  The flow'rs are bursting
  From ev'ry bough,
  And thousand voices
  Each bush yields now.
  And joy and gladness
  Fill ev'ry breast!
  Oh earth!-oh sunlight!
  Oh rapture blest!
  Oh love! oh loved one!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Yield, Voice, Joy

  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.79

• As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Courage, Dark

• The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Science, Technology

• 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

• Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stars, Lying, Flames

• We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Long, Treasure, Earth

• Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strong, Looks, Use

• I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation
  on which alone my happiness rests.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Jesus, Men, Names

  "Goethe: Five Studies". Book by Albert Schweizer, p. 53, 1961.

• 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!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Lying, Men

• Noble be man,
  Helpful and good!
  For that alone
  Sets him apart
  From every other creature
  On earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Noble, Earth

  "Das Gottliche" (1783)

• There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Years, Long, People

• The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth
  And then returning to earth, forever alternating.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Water, Forever

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1882). “The Poems of Goethe”, Richard West

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