Activity Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9 Activity quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s brief musings celebrate the dynamism of a life lived with intention, encouraging readers to weave curiosity and movement into their daily rhythm.

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

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I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

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The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to…

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To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death,…

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“Each one's no longer conscious Of the high wall, or the rest: Since the one enduring fortress, Is the soldier's iron breast.…

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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an…

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

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All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter…

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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

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The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an…

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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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Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always…

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