Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

1.7K quotes · Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Determined

“Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.”

Thinking Power Focus

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Philosophical

“Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.”

Men Love Talking

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Philosophical

“Sceptics are yet the most credulous.”

Skepticism Sceptic

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Confident

“I will be lord over myself.”

Lord

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Melancholic

“Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.”

Mind Soul Distance

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Philosophical

“Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.”

Men Writing Science

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Philosophical

“There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.”

Terrible Insight

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Philosophical

“To a valet no man is a hero.”

Men Hero

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Philosophical

“There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.”

Literature Views

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Courageous

“A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.”

Justice Judging

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Wise

“Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.”

Knowledge Reflection

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Nostalgic

“Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.”

Literature Letters

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