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 man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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  • The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
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  • The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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  • 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.
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  • The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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  • The people rate strength before everything.
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  • The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
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  • The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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  • The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
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  • The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
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  • The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
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  • The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
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  • The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
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  • The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
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  • The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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  • The unnatural, that too is natural.
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  • The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.
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  • The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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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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