Praise Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

12 Praise quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s verses often dance between lofty ideals and everyday feeling. Here, twelve snippets reveal how he balanced admiration with artistic integrity, offering a compact but resonant perspective for readers who enjoy his classical elegance.

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When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

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“[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.”

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One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

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The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to…

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In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

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Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are…

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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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Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the…

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Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends.…

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You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer,…

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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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