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Ideas Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
- Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should…
- Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.
- With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims…
- Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
- Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
- The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever…
- Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
- When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
- Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one…
- In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
- Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
- For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
- When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
- When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.
- Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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