Certain Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18 Certain quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s musings on certainty span poetry, drama, and philosophy. Across eighteen concise excerpts, his elegant language and reflective tone offer readers a timeless look at how confidence can be both personal and universal.

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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a…

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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

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To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.

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Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.

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Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much…

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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

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Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

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It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is…

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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves…

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Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain…

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Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others:…

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Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and…

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Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of…

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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a…

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As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of…

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When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies…

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We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

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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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