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 41 of 50

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Creative

“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.”

Art Vision Spirit

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Creative

“I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it”

Art Long Mind

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Love

“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.”

People Noble

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Creative

“Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.”

Art Principles

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Love

“Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.”

Sweet Accomplishment Lips

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Motivated

“Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.”

Literature Ordinary

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Regretful

“Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.”

Mean Use

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Philosophical

“In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.”

Stories Differences Respect

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Philosophical

“For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.”

Sex Sacrifice Butterfly

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Melancholic

“On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.”

World Despair

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Inspired

“Words express neither objects nor ourselves.”

Silence Objects

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Grateful

“What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.”

Father Inheritance

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