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

“There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]”

Ignorance Als Active

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Spiritual

“It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.”

Doctors Hard Have Confidence

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“Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!”

Brain Spirit

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“Nature is the living, visible garment of God.”

Nature Visible

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“That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.”

Women Eternity Eternal

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“I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.”

Knows Should

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“Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.”

Stills Anticipation

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“We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.”

Moral Poet Scientist

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“The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!”

Men Art Lying

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“I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.”

Men Character Self

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“Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?”

Eye Light Sight

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“Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.”

Heart Winning Attitude

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