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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

German writer and poet

Lived from: 1749 - 1832

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagGermany

Born: 28 august 1749 Died: 22 march 1832

  • Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
  • A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
  • People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
  • Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
  • 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.
  • All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
  • Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
  • No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.
  • 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.
  • People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
  • 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.
  • Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
  • The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
  • Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
  • Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
  • I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
  • There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
  • This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
  • A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
  • Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
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  • For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.
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  • Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
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  • Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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  • Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
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  • Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
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  • He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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  • He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
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  • Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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  • Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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  • People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.
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  • Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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  • Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
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  • The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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  • The world is so empty if one thinks only of 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.
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  • The world remains ever the same.
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  • There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
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  • There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
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  • Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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  • Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
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  • Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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What are the most famous quotes from Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe?

The two most famous quotes from Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe are:

  • "For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical."
  • "Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation."

When did Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe live?

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe was born in 1749 and died in the year 1832.