Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Biography : German writer and statesman.
Born: 1749 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Germany

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Quotes

Love does not dominate it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

love

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

beauty

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

life

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

life

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

science

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

artist

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

happiness

Few people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Superstition is the poetry of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

time

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