Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 8

• Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Adversity

  Maxims and Reflections (1819)

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• Personality is everything in art and poetry.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Artist, Personality

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1921). “Goethe's Literary Essays”

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• Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Harsh, Teach

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 4, Scene 4, 1786.

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• Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Phoenix, Ashes

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• Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Judging, Has Beens

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• Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Honesty, Deception

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• The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Hearing, Likes

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• No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Memories, Past, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2006). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.1, Mondial

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• Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Giving, Spirit

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3516, Delphi Classics

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• Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Hope, Anticipation

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• The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Clever, Drinking, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W. B. Rönnfeldt (1898*). “Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims”

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• In comradeship is danger countered best.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Friendship, Friends, Danger

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• People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, People, Listening

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• The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Circles, Realizing, Turns

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• Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Growth, Progress, Lines

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• Precaution is better than cure.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Safety, Cures, Precaution

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• The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Determination, Things In Life

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• The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Flower, Yield, Suffering

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2017). “The Sorrows of Young Werther (English German Edition, illustrated): Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Englisch Deutsch Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.105, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Crowds, Let Me

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Faust”, p.13, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Determination, Years, Knows

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• Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Courage, Honor, Lost Everything

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• Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Literature

  Maxims and Reflections I

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• Willing is not enough, we must do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Wisdom, Enough

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• By seeking and blundering we learn.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Mistake, Learning

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