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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
«Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
ashes, burned-out, burnt-out, burnt, new, new one, old, passion, rises, the true
«There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Action,
Ignorance
| Keywords:
action, frightful, ignorance, Nothing More, There Is Nothing
«Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Laughter
| Keywords:
laughs, shows
«Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Dreams,
Indecision
| Keywords:
as if by magic, Begin, boldness, brings, can-do, days, delaying, delays, earnest, genius, indecision, in earnest, lamenting, lost, magic, minute, seize, seize on, seizing, with boldness
«After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
fifteen, minutes, rainbow
«The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
advance, authors, original
«The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work»
«Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Knowledge,
Observation,
Thinking
| Keywords:
interesting, knowing, looking
«The coward threatens when he is safe»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
coward, threatens