Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Love Quotes

112 quotes · Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

All Philosophical Wise Creative Love Spiritual 112 quotes · page 4 of 10

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Love

“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.”

Life Love Marriage

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Love

“We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.”

Children Love Baby

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Love

“Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.”

Civilization Marriage

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Love

“A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.”

Men Understanding

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Love

“I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy”

Heart Children Sick

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Love

“Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.”

Sweet Accomplishment

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Love

“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.”

People Noble

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Love

“Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?”

Love Flower Power

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Love

“Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.”

Heart Dance Ballet Class

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Love

“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!”

Knows Sometimes

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Love

“Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!”

Wind Blow Blue

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Love

“There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.”

Men Noble Peers

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