Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes - page 4

The aim of living is life itself. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. View quote
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I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. View quote
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The World is so empty if one thinks only of the mountains, rivers, and cities but to know someone who thinks and feels with us,and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. View quote
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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around. View quote
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Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose. View quote
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All theory, dear friend, is gray but the precious tree of life is green. View quote
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I am the spirit that forever denies. View quote
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Three things are to be looked to in a building that it stand on the right spot that it is securely founded that it be successfully executed. View quote
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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets hims apart From every other creature On earth. View quote
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Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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. View quote
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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. View quote
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart. View quote
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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal. View quote
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. View quote
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. View quote
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. View quote
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If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses. View quote
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Investigate what is, and not what pleases. View quote
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Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths. View quote
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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art. View quote
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There is strong shadow where there is much light. View quote
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I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests. View quote
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