Eternity Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

11 Eternity quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe wrestles with the timeless in a handful of verses that feel both personal and universal. These eleven snippets offer a quick window into his philosophical musings.

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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.

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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one…

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I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

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The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged…

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Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

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A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking…

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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

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“I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun,…

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The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to…

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The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of…

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“Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a…

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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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