Fortune Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

13 Fortune quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s thoughts on luck are distilled into a brief yet potent set of 13 lines. Though modest in number, the pieces capture his Romantic sensibility and the tension between human ambition and the whims of fate.

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True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]

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Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

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Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

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Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er…

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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of…

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Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of…

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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der…

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To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both…

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You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the…

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What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of…

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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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