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Nature Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

120 Nature quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe laments how people try to dominate nature, yet he also marvels at a shooting star that asks for help. He reminds us that even the strange and unnatural belong to nature. He points out that anomalies are where nature hides its secrets, and everything is linked to something else.

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Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once

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The unnatural, that too is natural.

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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

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Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

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Every offense is avenged on earth.

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“It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.”

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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

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The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth And then returning to earth, forever…

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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth…

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It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.

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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

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The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

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It will be! the mass is working clearer! Conviction gathers, truer, nearer! The mystery which for Man in Nature lies We dare…

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Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her.…

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“I pity those who make much ado about the transitory nature of all things and are lost in the contemplation of earthly…

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People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I…

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“Through an intuitive perception of eternally creative nature we may become worthy of participating spiritually in its creative process”

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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who…

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Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord…

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I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner…

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The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and…

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By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far…

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“When glance turns To a sky-blue clear day, When the purplr-red sun Sinks low at sirocco, Here nature bestows glory, Joy, sound…

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“You must, in studying Nature, always consider both each single thing and the whole: nothing is inside and nothing is outside, for…

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“There dwells a life in every star; With brother spheres it rolls afar Its self-elected, radiant way. Still throb within the great…

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When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a…

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What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the…

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“For we are so constituted by nature, that we are ever prone to compare ourselves with others; and our happiness or misery…

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“Your suns and worlds are not within my ken, I merely watch the plaguey state of men. The little god of earth…

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“My father gave my stature tall, And rule of life decorous; My mother my nature genial And joy in making stories; Full…

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“When the sound and wholesome nature of man acts as an entirety, when he feels himself in the world as in a…

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“And when I look around the apartment where I now am,—when I see Charlotte’s apparel lying before me, and Albert’s writings, and…

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I'm an optimist by nature and a pessimist by experience.

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True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

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For the nature of women is closely allied to art

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All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

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Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

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Giving is the business of the rich.

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Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus…

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