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Happiness Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

64 Happiness quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If you’re looking for a blend of lyrical thought and timeless wisdom, this set of Goethe’s musings on happiness offers a rich, nuanced view. The German poet’s perspective weaves together personal feeling and broader philosophical ideas, giving you a varied palette of reflections to consider.

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The happy do not believe in miracles.

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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

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True happiness springs from moderation.

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Collectors are happy people.

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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

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Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

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It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.

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The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.

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The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted.…

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What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time…

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The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

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One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones…

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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever…

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“There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and…

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Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if…

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Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our…

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“He values my understanding and talents more highly than my heart, but I am proud of the latter only. It is the…

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Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant…

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Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent…

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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own…

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“All force strives forward to work far and wide To live and grow and ever to expand; Yet we are checked and…

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Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those…

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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which…

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“You were happy!” I exclaimed, as I returned quickly to the town, “‘as gay and contented as a man can be!’” God…

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“When the sound and wholesome nature of man acts as an entirety, when he feels himself in the world as in a…

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“And when I look around the apartment where I now am,—when I see Charlotte’s apparel lying before me, and Albert’s writings, and…

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“O my Charlotte, the sacred, tender remembrance! Gracious Heaven! restore to me the happy moment of our first acquaintance. I smile at…

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Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with…

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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

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True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

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A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

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The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

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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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