Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 16

• All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Intelligent, Thinking, Intelligence

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 441, 1998.

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• To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Knowing Who You Are, Goal

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• Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

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  Achievement, Faithful, Promise

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• The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Destiny, People

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• We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

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  Games, Use, Governing

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• Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sympathy, Destiny, Joy

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• Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Envy, Hatred, Needs

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.78, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, Past, History

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1897). “Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe: Tr., with an introduction”

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• They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Sober, Should

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Marcelle Clements (2013). “The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings”, p.41, Penguin

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• Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Skins, Core

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• Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

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  Imagination, Simple Life, Imagine

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• Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

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  People, Way, Treats

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• Habit is the most imperious of all masters.

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  Habit, Masters

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• Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Distance, Soul, Mind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2017). “The Sorrows of Young Werther (English German Edition, illustrated): Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Englisch Deutsch Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.51, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.

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  Art, Light, Color

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• He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

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  Being Strong, Inspirational Life, Needs

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• There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

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  Action, Capacity

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• The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Soul

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bayard Taylor (1950). “Faust, a tragedy”

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• Create, artist, do not talk.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Artist, Silence

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• So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

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  Long, Understanding, Misunderstood

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• Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Greek

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3535, Delphi Classics

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• Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Unrest, Uncertainty

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1889). “Early and miscellaneous letters”

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• A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Strength, Happiness

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• A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Education, Teacher

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 1790.

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• A useless life is an early death.
  [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]

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  Life, Useless, Indolence

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