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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Facts
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, artist, and politician. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, and more than 10,000 letters written by him are extant, as are nearly 3,000 drawings. (1749 – 1832) |
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Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
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Dear friend, all theory is gray,
And green the golden tree of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /Faust /
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Doubt grows with knowledge.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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I call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Man errs as long as he strives.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /Faust /
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No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
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The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
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The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
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We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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