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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe QUOTES

1 " If I love you, what business is it of yours? "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2 " The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3 " I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing. "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , The Sorrows of Young Werther

4 " You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never
Rises from the soul, and sways
The heart of every single hearer,
With deepest power, in simple ways.
You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,
Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps,
Blowing on a miserable fire,
Made from your heap of dying ash.
Let apes and children praise your art,
If their admiration’s to your taste,
But you’ll never speak from heart to heart,
Unless it rises up from your heart’s space. "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Faust, First Part

5 " This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us. "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

6 " If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like. "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

7 " There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8 " Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9 " If you would create something,
you must be something. "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

10 " He who moves not forward, goes backward. "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe QUOTES

11 " Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it! "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Faust, First Part

12 " Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

13 " Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away. "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

14 " Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go. "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

15 " Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension. "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

16 " What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil? "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Faust: Der Tragödie erster und zweiter Teil. Urfaust

17 " Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest. "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18 " Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side. "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

19 " Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest. "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Faust, First Part

20 " All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience. "

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe