He man Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

14 He man quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s 14 lines on the ‘He man’ idea offer a succinct, classical perspective on personal vigor and artistic spirit, echoing the Romantic era’s reverence for the heroic individual.

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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

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The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

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The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

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To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.

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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.

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Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit…

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Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

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There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with…

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Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of…

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A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has…

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Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which…

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When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie…

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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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