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

“As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.”

Men Real Rome

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Philosophical

“Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.”

Science Nature Taken

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Philosophical

“One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.”

Knows

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Philosophical

“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”

Gay Being Yourself

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Philosophical

“The threshold is the place of expectation.”

Expectations Threshold

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Philosophical

“We see only what we know.”

Science Knows

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Philosophical

“Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.”

Wish Keeping Secrets

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Philosophical

“Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.”

Eye Trying Truth

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Philosophical

“The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.”

Political History Conflict

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Philosophical

“Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?”

Men Heart

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Philosophical

“Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.”

Taken Tree

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Philosophical

“The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.”

Love Motivational Romantic

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