Top 100 Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes

#1. How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.

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#2. If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile ... so fair thou art.

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#3. Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

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#4. Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

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#5. Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

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#6. If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.

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#7. No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

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#8. Jupiter's welcome to more from his Juno if he can get it

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

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#10. Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

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#11. It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

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#12. The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

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#13. And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

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#14. Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

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#15. Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new

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#16. I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.

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#17. Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledge
for mankind in polished speeches
that are no more than vaporous winds
rustling the fallen leaves in autumn.

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#18. I know I can trust in my heart ... that she ... dare I, can I express heaven in a few words? That she loves me.

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#19. We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

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#20. First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

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#21. His easy going behavior contrasts greatly with my restlessness

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#22. I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

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#23. Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

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#24. What you inherit from your father
must first be earned before it's yours.

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#25. The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

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#26. The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

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#27. If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

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#28. The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

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#29. Surely the gestures of murmuring priests must contain some deep meaning

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#30. To have more, you must first be more.

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#31. People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

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#32. Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
[Ger., Wer kann was Dummes, wer was Kluges denken,
Das nicht die Vorwelt schon gedacht.]

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#33. Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

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#34. Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star

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#35. One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

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#36. Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

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#37. Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

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#38. Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

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#39. After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.

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#40. As our inclinations, so our opinions.

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#41. One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.

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#42. One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

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#43. Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

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#44. Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days. Whatever you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

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#45. Superstition is the poetry of life.

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#46. However, come, let's go, the world's turned gray And chilly, evening mists are rising, At nightfall it's indoors you want to be. 1170 But why should you stand still, astonished, staring? What can you see in the dusk to find upsetting?

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#47. That which issues from the heart alone,
Will bend the hearts of others to your own.

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#48. Mephistopholese: But we, more cunning in our cares,
Must take our joys before they fade.

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#49. If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.

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#50. The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of scepticism with faith.

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#51. No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.

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#52. My worthy friend, gray are all theories
And green alone Life's golden tree.

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#53. Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

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#54. The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

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#55. By Fortune's adverse buffets overborne
To solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,
And not in utter loneliness to live,
Myself at last did to the Devil give!

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#56. He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

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#57. There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

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#58. It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

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#59. Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

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#60. Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

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#61. We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

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#62. Encourage the beautiful, for the useful encourages itself.

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#63. We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

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#64. If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

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#65. As a man is, so is his God; therefore God was so often an object of mockery.
[Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott,
Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]

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#66. The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.

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#67. He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

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#68. Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

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#69. A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him

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#70. Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

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#71. Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

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#72. I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

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#73. The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it.. but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

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#74. Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

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#75. The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.

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#76. The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

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#77. Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.

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#78. We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

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#79. Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.

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

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#81. Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

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#82. The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.

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#83. Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

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#84. Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

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#85. Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

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#86. The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

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#87. Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

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#88. To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

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#89. Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

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#90. Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

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#91. In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm ... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

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#92. Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.

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#93. One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

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#94. It is delivery that makes the orators success.

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#95. The people rate strength before everything.

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#96. There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous ... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

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

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#98. 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.

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#99. Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

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#100. If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.

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