Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 5

• Few people have the imagination for reality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspiration, Reality, People

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• Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Persistence

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• All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Wisdom, Time

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

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• One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

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  Deceiving, Deceived, Oneself

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• Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

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  Powerful, Men, Thinking

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• Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

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  Wickedness, World, Neglect

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2011). “The Sorrows of Young Werther (少年維特的煩惱)”, p.13, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• Life is the childhood of our immortality.

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  Life, Godly, Childhood

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• Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

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  Running, Discovery, Self

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• What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

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  Relationship, Honesty, Yoga

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• I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

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  History, Promise, Sincere

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (19??). “Gleams From..: Being Passages Selected and Translated from the Prose Writings of Goethe and from His Converstaions with Eckermann”

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• The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

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  Flower, Honey, Bees

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• Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Can Do

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• If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.

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  People, Criticize, Ifs

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• When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

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  Marriage, Husband, Wife

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• Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

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  Individual, Mankind, Abstraction

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• I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Acceptance, Take Me As I Am, Introvert

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• Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

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  Fun, Character, Men

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• Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

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  Wise, Men, Half

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• What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

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  Age, Youth, Abundance

  Wahrheit und Dichtung (Poetry and Truth) pt. 2, ch. 6 (1811 - 1833)

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• Life is too short to drink bad wine.

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  Life Is Too Short, Wine, Vineyards

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• Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

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  Confused, Men, Suffering

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• Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

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  Writing, History, Sin

  "Mitteilungen ueber GoetheBo". Book by Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer, II. 9, 1810.

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• Wisdom is found only in truth.

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  Wisdom, Truth, Found

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• Nothing is worth more than this day.

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  Bad Day, Carpe Diem, Garden

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Maxim 789, 1833.

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• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

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  Love, Inspiring, Marriage

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