Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

1.7K quotes · Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

All Philosophical Wise Creative Love Spiritual 1.7K quotes · page 26 of 50

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Sad

“The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.”

Grief Strength Unhappy Person

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Spiritual

“Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.”

Children Education Insanity

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Regretful

“Patriotism corrupts history.”

Politics

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Creative

“Personality is everything in art and poetry.”

Art Artist

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Anxious

“The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.”

Risk Greatness Safety

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Happy

“A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.”

Men Needs

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Philosophical

“What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.”

Understanding

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Angry

“Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.”

Funny Humorous Math

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Love

“The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.”

Love Marriage Anniversary

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Creative

“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.”

Art Work

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Melancholic

“A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]”

Life Useless

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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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