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Quote of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Flowers are the beautiful words and...


Biography - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

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

Flowers are the beautiful words and hieroglyphics of Nature, by which she indicates how much she loves us.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Les fleurs sont les jolis mots et hiéroglyphes de la nature avec lesquels elle nous laisse entendre combien elle nous aime.

German
Blumen sind die schönen Worte und Hieroglyphen der Natur, mit denen sie uns andeutet, wie lieb sie uns hat.




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Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.




Quotes for: love


Quotes

Quotes about love:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





We have need of morality only for want of love.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.











Quotes for: nature


Quotes

Quotes about nature:


Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.





Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.





Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.





Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.











Quotes for: word


Quotes

Quotes for: word


The word flies and cannot be recalled.





One word and all is saved
One word and all is lost.






Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.





Finding the right words at the right moment is action.





The language of friendship is not words but meanings.





The meaning of a word is its use in the language.











Quotes for: flower


Quotes

Quotes for: flower


To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.






I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.





"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."





Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.





Earth laughs in flowers.





Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches,
And here is my heart which beats only for you.












Quotes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also said...


In all things it is better to hope than to despair.





As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





To do good needs no consideration.





We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.





People grow old indeed, but who grows wise?





The aim of living is Life itself.












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