Aging Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8 Aging quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s eight short statements on Aging present a succinct view of his reflections on time and life. This brief collection works as a quick reference for his perspective.

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The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

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It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that…

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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more…

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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall,…

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

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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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