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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  • One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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  • One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
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  • Only law can give us freedom.
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  • Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
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  • Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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  • Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
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  • Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
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  • Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
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  • Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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  • People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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  • People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
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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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  • People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
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  • People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
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  • Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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  • Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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  • Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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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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  • Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
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  • Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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