Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 14

• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Courage, Clever

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• If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Language, Foreign Language, Knows

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• 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

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

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  Emotional, Feelings, Realms

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• Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

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  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.111, Princeton University Press

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• He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

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  Life, Happiness, Quality

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• I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dancer, Wish, Wire

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• You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

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  Love, Faults, Virtue

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• I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

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  Heart, Soul, Noble

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.3, 谷月社

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• One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

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  Summer, Nature, Children

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• There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Laughter, Character

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.142, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

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  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

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• What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

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  Inspirational, Contradiction, Agree

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.221, Ravenio Books

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• 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.

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  Death, Dark, Law

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• Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

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  Winning, Generosity, Favour

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• Every beginning is cheerful.

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  Cheerful

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75

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• Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

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  Education, Children, Insanity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1842). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.78

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• Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

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  Miracle, Magic, Literature

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.114

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• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

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  Travel, Adventure, Passive Voice

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• We must be young to do great things.

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  Youth, Young, Great Things

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.293, Ravenio Books

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• It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.

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  Character, Light, Color

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• One errs as long as one strives.

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  Errors, Long, Strive

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• Doubt can only be removed by action.

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  Motivational, Fear, Doubt

  Thomas Carlyle, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué (Freiherr de), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Karl August Musäus (1827). “Wilhelm Meister's travels”, p.8

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• I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

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  Tolerance, May, Bent

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• When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

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  Praise, Equal

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