Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes - page 26

Classicism is health, romanticism is sickness. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do. View quote
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The effects of good music are not just because it's new on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it. View quote
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A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead. View quote
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God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom. View quote
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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden. View quote
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul. View quote
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The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool. View quote
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. View quote
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Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. View quote
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I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again! (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching. View quote
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Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance? View quote
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It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated. View quote
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How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief? View quote
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it! View quote
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart. View quote
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded. View quote
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No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country. View quote
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole. View quote
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him. View quote
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A man's errors are what make him amiable. View quote
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Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed i crave for death, I long for rest. View quote
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My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy- the purest joy of life. View quote
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