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 30 of 50

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Hopeful

“Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.”

Valuable Aim Higher

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Wise

“A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.”

Thinking Men Respect

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Wise

“To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.”

Understanding Wells Half

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Hopeful

“God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.”

Art Long

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Grateful

“The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine”

Want Wine

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Compassionate

“He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.”

May Wish Energy

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Philosophical

“It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.”

Lying Truth Errors

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Grateful

“Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.”

Men Truth Shows

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Determined

“Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.”

Nature Progress Development

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Creative

“The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.”

Writing Said Originality

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Creative

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”

Motivational Courage Clever

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Creative

“The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.”

Ideas Lying Originality

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