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Difficult Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

13 Difficult quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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When you wrestle with life's tough moments, Goethe’s 13 musings offer a quiet companion. His words, drawn from poetry and prose, capture the tension between effort and insight, giving you a modest yet resonant perspective on what it means to face the hard stuff.

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Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

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Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

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A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

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A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

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The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity .

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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

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To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our…

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If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that…

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As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same…

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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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