Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes - page 22

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on. View quote
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Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road. View quote
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A purpose you impart is no longer your own. View quote
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The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks. View quote
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And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence. View quote
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter. View quote
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Giving is the business of the rich. View quote
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work. View quote
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From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives. View quote
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Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure whatever she commands, do. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music. View quote
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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above. View quote
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Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding. View quote
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations. View quote
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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. View quote
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Energy will do anything that can be done in the world and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it. View quote
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever. View quote
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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her! View quote
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I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them. View quote
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Thought expands, but paralyzes action animates, but narrows. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines. View quote
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A vain man can never be utterly ruthless he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others. View quote
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It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good. View quote
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One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand. View quote
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