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 40 of 50

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Hopeful

“The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.”

People Time Destiny

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Spiritual

“However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.”

Book Time Exercise

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Determined

“He who moves not forward, goes backward.”

Moving Growth

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Motivated

“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”

Inspirational Life

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Creative

“Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.”

Ideas Science Technology

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Courageous

“You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.”

Masters Hammers

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Hopeful

“Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.”

Enough Hope

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Proud

“I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own”

Heart Proud Strenght

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Philosophical

“Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.”

Art Inspirational Philosophy

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Motivated

“It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.”

Addresses Remedy

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Philosophical

“To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.”

Clue

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Thoughtful

“No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist.”

Mean Science Discovery

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