Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Feelings

• Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Feelings, May

• 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

• Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Lying, School

• A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Teacher, Memories

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.175, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Emotional, Feelings, Realms

• I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Memorable, Unrequited Love, Feelings

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2000). “Selected Works: Including The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Italian Journey, Faust”, Everyman's Library

• Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Religious, Voice, Imagination

• As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, School, People

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

• Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Morning, Heart, Simple

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.13, 谷月社

• The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, Profound, Perfect

• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Feelings, Use, Moments

• Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Song, Men

  Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre bk. 5, ch. 1 (1795 - 1796)

• The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Men, Understanding

• You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Feelings, Knows

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p.270, Faust, I. 1. 182, 1922.

• Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Feelings, Guilt

• Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Exercise, Discovery, Long

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3588, Delphi Classics

• There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Two, Feelings

• No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving, Feelings, Mediocrity

• Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Vanity, Envy, Feelings

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