Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 20

• Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.

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  Library, World, Deals

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• Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

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  Animal, Men, Add

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• I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

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  People, Made, Mankind

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• The eternal female draws us onward.

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  Female, Draws, Eternal

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• Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
  [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]

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  Writing, History, Sin

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• The aim of living is life itself.

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  Aim

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• To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.

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  Atheist, Religion, Harmony

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• To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.

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  Motivational, Artist, And Love

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• Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

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  Travel, Winning, Gambling

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• Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

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  Life, Motivational, Fitness

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• Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

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  Mind, Profit

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• The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

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  Spiritual, Eye, Shine On

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• Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

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  Dream, Destiny, Order

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.186, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

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  Art, Spring, Poetry

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• Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.

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  Pain, Archer, Arrows

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• Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

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  Motivational, Success, Leadership

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• What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

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  Human Nature, Ifs

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• nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

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  Heart, Talking, Utterance

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.29, e-artnow

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• Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

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  Imagination, Literature, Taste

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• The world remains ever the same.

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  Literature, World, Remains

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.117, Ravenio Books

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• The little man is still a man.

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  Men, Literature, Littles

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• Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

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  Friendship, Old Friends, Strange

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• To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

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  Love, Self, Majority

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• A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.

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  Men, Giving, Mind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.115, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

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  Men, Simple, Simplicity

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