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 38 of 50

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Grateful

“This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.”

Nature Spring Rain

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Philosophical

“The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.”

Love Motivational Romantic

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Love

“I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy”

Children Heart

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Wise

“Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.”

Wise Unity

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Philosophical

“Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.”

Taken Pieces Construction

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Grateful

“Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.”

Feelings Use Moments

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Lonely

“Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.”

Children Honesty

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Philosophical

“Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.”

Taken Tree

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Love

“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.”

Life Love Marriage

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Courageous

“Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born”

Honor Courage Lost Everything

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Hopeful

“Wishes are premonitions of abilities.”

Wish Ability

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Motivated

“What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.”

Inspirational Agree

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