Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Short Quotes

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Doubt ever grows alongside of knowledge.
In German: Mit dem Wissen wächst der Zweifel.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The deed is everything, the glory nothing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Us to believe in the coherency of phenomena.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Seeking with the soul the land of the Greeks.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Modern poets put a lot of water into their ink.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The message well I hear, my faith alone is weak.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is strong shadow where there is much light.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I sing as the bird sings
That lives in the boughs.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Education does much, but encouragement is everything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is Classical is healthy; what is Romantic is sick.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.

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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is more frightful than to see ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The spirits that I summoned up
I now can't rid myself of.

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