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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE QUOTES
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
German author, painter, scientist, philosopher, and statesman
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
GOETHE, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
There would be far less suffering amongst mankind, if men -- and God knows why they are so fashioned -- did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
GOETHE, The Sorrows of Young Werther
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exist for his sake.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Great Quotes for Great Educators
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
GOETHE, 365 Celebrity Crypto-Quotes
I call architecture frozen music.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, letter to Johann Peter Eckermann, Mar. 23, 1829
Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Wilhelm Meister
Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
GOETHE, Conversations with Goethe
The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Sorrows of Young Werther
All extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane.
GOETHE, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.
GOETHE, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.
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