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All quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Abundance Acceptance Accomplishment Achievement Acting Adventure Adversity Affairs Age Aging Ambition Animals Appearance Appreciation Architecture Art Art And Science Atheism Attitude Awareness Beauty Being Alone Belief Bible Birds Birth Birthdays Blame Bliss Books Business Certainty Challenges Change Character Chess Childhood Children Christ Church Commitment Common Sense Communication Community Confusion Conscience Consciousness Contemplation Contentment Country Courage Creation Creativity Criticism Critics Culture Darkness Death Deception Decisions Desire Destiny Devil Difficulty Dignity Dogs Doubt Dreams Duty Dying Earth Education Effort Emotions Encouragement Enemies Energy Enthusiasm Envy Equality Eternity Evil Evolution Excellence Exercise Expectations Experience Eyes Failing Faith Fame Family Fashion Fate Fathers Fear Feelings Fitness Flowers Focus Freedom Friendship Funny Gardens Generosity Genius Giving Glory Goals God Gold Goodness Grace Gratitude Greatness Grief Growth Habits Happiness Hard Work Harmony Hate Hatred Health Heart Heaven Heroism History Home Honesty Honor Hope Human Nature Humanity Hypocrisy Identity Ignorance Imagination Immortality Individuality Innovation Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Jesus Jesus Christ Joy Judging Judgment Justice Knowledge Language Laughter Leadership Learning Leaving Liberty Libraries Life Literature Logic Losing Love Lying Magic Manifestation Mankind Manners Marriage Math Mathematics Mediocrity Meditation Memories Miracles Mistakes Moderation Modesty Morality Morning Mothers Motivation Motivational Mountain Music Nature New Beginnings Old Age Opinions Opportunity Originality Overcoming Pain Painting Parents Parties Passion Past Peace Perception Perfection Perseverance Persistence Personality Perspective Persuasion Philosophy Physics Piety Pleasure Poetry Politicians Politics Positive Positivity Power Praise Prejudice Pride Productivity Progress Property Prudence Purity Purpose Quality Rainbows Reading Reality Reflection Reincarnation Relationships Religion Reputation Respect Revolution Running Sacrifice Safety Salvation School Science Setting Goals Sickness Silence Simplicity Sin Skepticism Slaves Sleep Society Solitude Songs Sorrow Soul Spirituality Sports Spring Strength Struggle Students Study Stupidity Style Success Suffering Sympathy Talent Teachers Teaching Technology Temptation Theology This Day Time Time Management Today Tolerance Tranquility Travel Tree Of Life True Love Trust Truth Understanding Unity Universe Values Violence Virtue Vision Waiting War Water Weakness Wealth Wife Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Work Worship Writing Yoga Youth more...
  • A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

    Men  
  • With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (2013). “Faust”, p.39, Simon and Schuster
  • What then is your duty? What the day demands.

  • Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood
  • Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75
  • The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

  • It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

  • The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

    Men  
  • Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.76
  • Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

    Men  
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.126, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “The Essential Goethe”, p.250, Princeton University Press
  • If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

    Country  
  • Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Marcelle Clements (2013). “The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings”, p.63, Penguin
  • Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

  • The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

    Men  
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.23, 谷月社
  • Great passions are incurable diseases.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.113
  • Over all the mountain tops is peace.

    'Wanderers Nachtlied' (1821)
  • Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

  • Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

    "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, April 6, 1779.
  • It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.

  • A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

  • The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

  • Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

  • Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

  • Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

    Country  
  • Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

  • Doubt can only be removed by action.

    Thomas Carlyle, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué (Freiherr de), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Karl August Musäus (1827). “Wilhelm Meister's travels”, p.8
  • Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

    Truth  
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.71, Ravenio Books
  • Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

  • Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

    Men  
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes about: Abundance Acceptance Accomplishment Achievement Acting Adventure Adversity Affairs Age Aging Ambition Animals Appearance Appreciation Architecture Art Art And Science Atheism Attitude Awareness Beauty Being Alone Belief Bible Birds Birth Birthdays Blame Bliss Books Business Certainty Challenges Change Character Chess Childhood Children Christ Church Commitment Common Sense Communication Community Confusion Conscience Consciousness Contemplation Contentment Country Courage Creation Creativity Criticism Critics Culture Darkness Death Deception Decisions Desire Destiny Devil Difficulty Dignity Dogs Doubt Dreams Duty Dying Earth Education Effort Emotions Encouragement Enemies Energy Enthusiasm Envy Equality Eternity Evil Evolution Excellence Exercise Expectations Experience Eyes Failing Faith Fame Family Fashion Fate Fathers Fear Feelings Fitness Flowers Focus Freedom Friendship Funny Gardens Generosity Genius Giving Glory Goals God Gold Goodness Grace Gratitude Greatness Grief Growth Habits Happiness Hard Work Harmony Hate Hatred Health Heart Heaven Heroism History Home Honesty Honor Hope Human Nature Humanity Hypocrisy Identity Ignorance Imagination Immortality Individuality Innovation Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Jesus Jesus Christ Joy Judging Judgment Justice Knowledge Language Laughter Leadership Learning Leaving Liberty Libraries Life Literature Logic Losing Love Lying Magic Manifestation Mankind Manners Marriage Math Mathematics Mediocrity Meditation Memories Miracles Mistakes Moderation Modesty Morality Morning Mothers Motivation Motivational Mountain Music Nature New Beginnings Old Age Opinions Opportunity Originality Overcoming Pain Painting Parents Parties Passion Past Peace Perception Perfection Perseverance Persistence Personality Perspective Persuasion Philosophy Physics Piety Pleasure Poetry Politicians Politics Positive Positivity Power Praise Prejudice Pride Productivity Progress Property Prudence Purity Purpose Quality Rainbows Reading Reality Reflection Reincarnation Relationships Religion Reputation Respect Revolution Running Sacrifice Safety Salvation School Science Setting Goals Sickness Silence Simplicity Sin Skepticism Slaves Sleep Society Solitude Songs Sorrow Soul Spirituality Sports Spring Strength Struggle Students Study Stupidity Style Success Suffering Sympathy Talent Teachers Teaching Technology Temptation Theology This Day Time Time Management Today Tolerance Tranquility Travel Tree Of Life True Love Trust Truth Understanding Unity Universe Values Violence Virtue Vision Waiting War Water Weakness Wealth Wife Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Work Worship Writing Yoga Youth