Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Philosophical Quotes

420 quotes · Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Philosophical

“When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!”

Art Finals Flying

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Philosophical

“A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it.”

Men Long Truth

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Philosophical

“As our inclinations, so our opinions.”

Opinion Inclination

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Philosophical

“How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.”

Action Introspection

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Philosophical

“It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.”

Truth Liberty Errors

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Philosophical

“It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape; it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony; if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.”

Truth Air Bells

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Philosophical

“The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.”

Believe Truth Clever

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Philosophical

“There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again.”

Thinking Trying Has Beens

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Philosophical

“Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.”

Weak Yoke

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Philosophical

“Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.”

Fall Nature Arms

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Philosophical

“To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.”

Names Nature Form

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Philosophical

“The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.”

Men Taken Grieving

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