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 33 of 50

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Love

“To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.”

Self Love Majority

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Creative

“Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.”

Children Dog Practice

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Grateful

“Every second is of infinite value.”

Time Helping

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Confident

“I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.”

May Tolerance

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Funny

“They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!”

People Should Sober

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Happy

“Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.”

Beauty Welcome

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Angry

“Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.”

Literature Ignorance

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Wise

“It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.”

Men Littles Matter

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Philosophical

“What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.”

Integrity Mirrors Hypocrisy

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Determined

“One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.”

Life Creativity

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Confident

“Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.”

Men Enough

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Wise

“Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.”

Teacher Silence Lessons

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