Becoming Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8 Becoming quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s eight “Becoming” reflections distill his literary wisdom into concise, elegant statements, offering a brief taste of his timeless insight.

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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

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No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also…

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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

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Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena.…

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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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To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation,…

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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self…

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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

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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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