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 29 of 50

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Wise

“What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]”

Government Dies Teach

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Angry

“Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.”

Time Circles Debtors

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Wise

“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”

Life Character

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Love

“Our foibles are really what make us lovable.”

Weakness Lovable

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Philosophical

“The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.”

Thinking Happiness Equanimity

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Funny

“No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.”

Men Past Memories

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Philosophical

“Few men have imagination enough for reality.”

Men Reality

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Determined

“Willing is not enough, we must do.”

Wise Wisdom

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Philosophical

“No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.”

Communication Society

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Melancholic

“Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.”

Inspirational Change

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Hopeful

“Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.”

Mean Inspirational

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Courageous

“To rule is easy, to govern difficult.”

Government Easy

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