Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Spiritual Quotes

98 quotes · Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Spiritual

“Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.”

Eye Light Pain

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Spiritual

“The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.”

Lying Faith Empty

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Spiritual

“Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.”

Giving Running

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Spiritual

“Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.”

Giving Happiness

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Spiritual

“There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.”

World Art Method

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Spiritual

“Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.”

Needs House Office

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Spiritual

“Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.”

Nature Secret Midst

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Spiritual

“The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.”

Eye Reality Night

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Spiritual

“However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.”

Book Time Exercise

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Spiritual

“I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.”

Soul Eternity Activity

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Spiritual

“Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.”

Freedom Levels Bears

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Spiritual

“The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.”

Christian Together Feet

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