Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes

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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is delightful to transport one’s self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The deed is everything, the glory naught.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing is worth more than this day.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A useless life is an early death.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Patriotism ruins history.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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