Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Quotes

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

«While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err»

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)

«Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.»

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: dissipate, dissipating, ill-judged, outlay, outlays

«A distracted existence leads us to no goal.»

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: no-goal

«People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.»

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: aptitudes, constituted, undertake

«We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.»

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: constituted, engrave, engraved, engraves

«No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.»

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: adversaries

«The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.»

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: decline, downward, indicates, keep pace

«We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.»

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: get hold, get hold of

«The world remains ever the same.»

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)

«Only law can give us freedom.»

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)