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 35 of 50

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Philosophical

“As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.”

Men Real Rome

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Love

“Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.”

Men Hair Wind

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Love

“A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.”

Men Loss

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Philosophical

“Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.”

Wish Keeping Secrets

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Happy

“Everything great and intelligent is in the minority”

Intelligent Intelligence Minorities

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Wise

“Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]”

Wisdom Dies

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Philosophical

“We see only what we know.”

Knows Science

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Wise

“By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.”

Nature Strength Defects

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Philosophical

“One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.”

Knows

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Motivated

“Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.”

Magic Genius

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Philosophical

“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”

Gay Being Yourself

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Creative

“Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.”

Caring Faults

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