Eternal Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

11 Eternal quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s musings on the eternal often blend philosophy with poetic wonder. This small collection of eleven lines offers a taste of his quest to grasp the endless within art and nature.

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The eternal female draws us onward.

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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

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The eternal feminine draws us on high.

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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.

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The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]

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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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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates…

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All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie…

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As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same:…

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The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep…

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True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a…

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

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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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