Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 13

• Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mother, Heart, Wine

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1837). “Goetz Von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand: A Drama in Five Acts”, p.20

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• To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Fancy, Conform

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• The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

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  Art, Work, Works Of Art

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• All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on
  our own, just as with life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Would Be, Lessons, Valuable

  Letter to Carl Friedrich Zelter, November 26, 1825.

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• One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

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  Humility, Thinking, Doe

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• I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

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  Education, Hate, Activity

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• All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.

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  Spiritual

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• The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

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  Self Worth, Men, Thinking

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• Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

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  Love, Inspiring, Philosophy

  "'Das Märchen' ('The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily')". Story by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1795. Translated by Thomas Carlyle, 1832, wn.rsarchive.org.

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• Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Past, Ifs

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• Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inward, May, Tests

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.57

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• He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

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  Hands, Years, History

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• The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
  [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]

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  Genius, Lasts, Firsts

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• Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

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  Art, Ideas, Experience

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• If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Writing, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.95, Ravenio Books

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• Every solution of a problem is a new problem.

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  Problem, Solutions

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• Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

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  Dancing, Mystery, Partners

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• The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

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  Fate, Hands, Law

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• Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.

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  Writing, Science, Men

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• Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

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  Writing, Originality, Said

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• A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

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  Men, Practice, Needs

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• There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

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  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

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  Work, Acceptance, Men

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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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Ideas, Originality

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