Behinds Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

12 Behinds quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s poetry often whispers about the forces we can’t see, and these dozen excerpts capture that subtle, introspective side.

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One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

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Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

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Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

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Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

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Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure,…

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When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib…

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The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic…

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Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich…

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Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense…

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The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove…

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The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the…

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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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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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