Quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

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  • The coward threatens when he is safe.
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  • The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
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  • The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
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  • The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
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  • The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
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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.
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  • The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.
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  • The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
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  • The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
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  • The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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  • The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
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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.
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  • The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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  • The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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  • The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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  • The history of mankind is his character.
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  • The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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  • The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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  • The little man is still a man.
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  • The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.
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