Top 1758 Quotes & Sayings by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Page 30
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Last updated on November 4, 2024.
The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.
No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.
Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.
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.
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.
A world without love would be no world.
Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.
If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.
Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it
Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom.
[Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]
I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias.
[Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]
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