Creatures Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8 Creatures quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s musings on living beings capture his Romantic curiosity in a concise set of eight lines. Though modest in number, each quote reveals his reverence for the animal kingdom and the subtle lessons it imparts.

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Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the…

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The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and…

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Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

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Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

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It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.

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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself,…

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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

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The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

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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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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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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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