List of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Total Quotes 1748
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.
Book Judging Competent
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
Thinking Purpose Persuasion
If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
Doe Management Individual
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
Wind is the loving wooer of waters; wind blends together billows all-foaming. spirit of man, thou art like unto water! fortune of man, thou art like unto wind!
Art Men Clouds
No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
Country Garden Doe
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
Character Development Tests
The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.
Beauty Beautiful Needs
Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
Believe Majority Persuasion
A world without love would be no world.
Would Be World Without Love
The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.
Simple Desire Easy
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
Men Perfect Sensitive
  • Born: August 28, 1749
  • Died: March 22, 1832
  • Occupation: Writer
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