Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 15

• There is strong shadow where there is much light.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strong, Light, Shadow

  "Goetz of Berlichingen, with the iron hand". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Act I, 1773.

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• Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Common Sense, Advantage, Sensible

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• Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Science, World

  Speech by King Willem-Alexander at the Diplomatic Corps dinner, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, www.royal-house.nl. June 24, 2015.

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• Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Stupid, Thinking

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 787-90, Faust, II, 2, 1, 1922.

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• There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Insight, Terrible, Activity

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• The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Thinking, Joy

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• 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

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• Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Generosity, Giving, Absence

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• If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doors, Clean, Streets

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• Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, May, Path

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• Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strong, Temptation, Want

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• Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Energy, Done

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• I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.

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  Character, Men, Self

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• Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Effort, Understanding, Impatient

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.174, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Powerful, Freedom

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.3

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• Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Peculiar, Form

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 311-13, Hermann und Dorothea, Canto V, line 69, 1922.

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• It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Fear, Fate

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• Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Tolerance, Age

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• Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Aim, Valuable, Higher

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3579, Delphi Classics

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• Common sense is the genius of humanity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Meaningful, Common Sense, Humanity

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• To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Government, Politics, Easy

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• There is no patriotic art.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Patriotic

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

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• Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Students, Prudence

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.65

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• Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

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  Creative, Way, Artistic

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