Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Passion

• Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Phoenix, Ashes

• A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Dream, Attitude

• 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

• Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, April 6, 1779.

• I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Bad Day, Passion

• The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Heart, Fate

  Elective Affinities bk. 2, ch. 3 (1808)

• We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Law, Weapons

• Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Phoenix, Ashes

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.761, Delphi Classics

• Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Power, Vices

• Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Passion, May

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.276

• Great passions are incurable diseases.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Disease, Incurable Disease

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.113

• Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Virtue, Defects

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

• The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Safety, Demon

• Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Men, Thinking

• What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Heart, Poetry

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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