Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Spiritual Quotes

98 quotes · Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

All Philosophical Wise Creative Love Spiritual 98 quotes · page 3 of 9

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Spiritual

“Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.”

Children Faith Miracle

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Spiritual

“Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.”

Art Strong Profound

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“All perishable is but an allegory.”

Allegory

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“Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.”

Want Art

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“Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.”

Literature Lasts

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“The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.”

Eye Spiritual Shine On

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“True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.”

Religion Humility Suffering And Death

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“He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.”

Art Science Religion

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“For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.”

People Able Life Is

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“Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.”

Soul Nature Spring

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“The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.”

Men Happiness Inner Peace

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“Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.”

Men Feelings Guilt

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