Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 12

• Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strong, Book, Reading

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• The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty,
  Even though this world is forever altering its values.

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  Forever, Humanity, World

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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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• The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

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  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.65, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

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  Wish, Infinite, Exploration

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

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• Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

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  Drinking, Wine, Night

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• Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

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  Country, Teacher, Teaching

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• We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

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  Life, Moving, Thinking

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• Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

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  Thinking, Mind, Stories

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1906). “Faust, a Dramatic Mystery”

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• One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

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  Average, Quality, Taste

  "Conversations with Eckermann". Book by Johann Peter Eckermann and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, February 26, 1824.

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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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• 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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• One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knows

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• When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

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  Men, Two, Blame

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• Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

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  Birthday, Men, Years

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.817, Delphi Classics

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• A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

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  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Literature

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• Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasure, is it worthwhile to dress and undress?

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  Morning, Joy, Dresses

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• Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.

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  Nature, Accomplish, Leap

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1966). “Conversations and encounters”

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• Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.

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  Battle, Monsters

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• All perishable is but an allegory.

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  Allegory

  "Faust, Part 2". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act V, 1832.

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• The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

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  Leadership, Courage, Inspiration

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• Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

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  Art, Hipster, Men

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• Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

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  Hope, Enough, Anxious

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• Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Men

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• Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

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  Truth, Errors, Again And Again

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