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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  • We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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  • We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
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  • We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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  • We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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  • We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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  • Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.
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  • What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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  • What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
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  • What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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  • What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
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  • What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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  • What is not fully understood is not possessed.
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  • What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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  • What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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  • What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
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  • Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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  • Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
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  • When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
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  • When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
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  • When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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