Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes (200 quotes)

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„To create something you must be something.“
Picture of quotation author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
„Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.“
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„To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.“
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„Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.“
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„The unnatural, that too is natural.“
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„It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.“
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„Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.“
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„The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.“
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„The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.“
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„He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.“
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„The world remains ever the same.“
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„If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.“
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„For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.“
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„Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.“
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„To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.“
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„Mastery passes often for egotism.“
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„Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.“
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„I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.“
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„To rule is easy, to govern difficult.“
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„If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.“

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Author information

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Author born: August 28, 1749
Author died: March 22, 1832
Nationality: German
Author Profession: Poet

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