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

“A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.”

Men Trying Learning

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Philosophical

“Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.”

Ideas Firsts Visitors

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Philosophical

“If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.”

People Giving

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Philosophical

“Beauty can never really understand itself.”

Beauty

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Philosophical

“There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.”

Genius Mediocrity Immortal

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Philosophical

“If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.”

Men Law

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Philosophical

“Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.”

Individual Faults

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Philosophical

“Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.”

Doubt Fields Pioneers

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Philosophical

“I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.”

Names Bears Collectives

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Philosophical

“Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.”

Children Parent

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Philosophical

“Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.”

Special Devil

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Philosophical

“No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.”

World Secret Depth

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