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

“Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.”

Facts Solitude Innovation

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Spiritual

“Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.”

Nature Tired Entering

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“The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.”

Men Religion

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“Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.”

Needs Faith

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“All is born of water; all is sustained by water.”

Water Nature Travel

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“Every step of life shows much caution is required.”

Literature Steps

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“He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.”

World Belief

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“Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?”

Eye Appreciation Rays

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“Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace.”

Faith Saving Coins

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Spiritual

“Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly; telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.”

Heart Should Holy

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“We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.”

Long Earth Treasure

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“We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.”

Writing Religious Morality

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