Quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
German writer and poet
Category: Poets (Contemporary) | Writers (Contemporary)
Lived from: 1749-1832
We found 329 quotes.
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Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
German writer and poet 1749-1832
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Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
German writer and poet 1749-1832
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Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
German writer and poet 1749-1832
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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
German writer and poet 1749-1832
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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
German writer and poet 1749-1832
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
German writer and poet 1749-1832
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
German writer and poet 1749-1832
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For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.
German writer and poet 1749-1832
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
German writer and poet 1749-1832
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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
German writer and poet 1749-1832
