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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes

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Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Plunge boldly into the thick of life! Each lives it; not to many is it known; and seize, it where you will, it is interesting  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fool and the half wise that the danger lies  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life’s common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Man usually believes, if only words he hears, that also with them goes material for thinking  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Every reader reads himself out of the book that he reads; nay, has he a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with the author’s  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) The little done vanishes from the sight of man, who looks forward to what is still to do  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never seen that clever men have been ungrateful  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party, generally both  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) The most original modern authors are not so because they advance what is new, but simply because they know how to put what they have to say, as if it had never been said before  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) The world could not exist if it were not simple. This 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  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
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