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Letter "J" » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
«Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
advantages, object, right away, secrecy
«Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.»
«I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.»
«Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
acknowledgment, A level, Refusing, respecting
«He who cannot love must learn to flatter»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
flatter, flat out
«People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
altogether, communicate, draw, organic, personally, renounce, renounces, renouncing, visually
«Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Dreams
| Keywords:
as if by magic, Begin, boldness, genius, magic, whatever, with boldness
«Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.»
«Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Inner Light, shine, someday, The Inner Light
«There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
aggressive, stupidities, stupidity, There Is Nothing, worse
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