Pleasure Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

17 Pleasure quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s reflections on pleasure weave through poetry, philosophy, and drama. In 17 selections you’ll see how his timeless curiosity about joy surfaces across different genres.

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The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.

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If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

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One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

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Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they…

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If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure…

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Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring…

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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own…

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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

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My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days…

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Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring…

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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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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems…

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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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It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight…

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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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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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Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any…

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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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