Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 17

• True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love Is, Empty, Fortune

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• It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fitness, Relaxation, Human Nature

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• At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Age, Poison

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.93, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Great passions are incurable diseases.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Disease, Incurable Disease

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.113

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• The one who always strives,
  That one can be redeemed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strive, Salvation, Strife

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• Action has magic, grace and power in it.

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  Grace, Magic, Acting

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• Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.

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  Children, Trying, Love One Another

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• We don't get to know anything but what we love.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Knows

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• One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Justice, Sides

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• All things are only transitory.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, All Things, Transitory

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• I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Enemy, Attention, Merit

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.136, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

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  Want, Sides, Infinite

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• Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Power, Names, Pieces

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• You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hammers, Anvils, Masters

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• Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

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  Art, Religion, Want

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.76

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• They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Teaching, Useless

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.129

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• Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Shells, Statistics, Kernel

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1957). “Poems of Goethe: a sequel to Goethe, the lyrist”

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• One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Management, Enough

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1882). “The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry From My Own Life”, p.394, Library of Alexandria

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• It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

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  Literature, Fool, Merit

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• Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Elderly, Wish

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• Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Laughter, Men, Suffering

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.36, 谷月社

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• The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.

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  Appreciation, Time, Appreciate

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• The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

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  Success, Errors, Long

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• No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

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  Men, Two, Giving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Literature

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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