Garden Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

9 Garden quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s garden musings arrive in a compact batch of nine, each line echoing the Enlightenment’s reverence for the outdoors. These snippets give a flavor of how the poet‑philosopher linked cultivation with contemplation.

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Our earthly ball a peopled garden.

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Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

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If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

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No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who…

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To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - -…

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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That…

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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels…

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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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