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It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Triumph, Genius, Common
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Doe, Tests, Way
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character, Men, Common Sense
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.96, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Purpose, Impart

Gray is the color of all theory

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Color, Theory, Gray

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ill Will, Envy, World
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.80, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Creation, Divine

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Errors, Amiable

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
May, Chance, Reputation
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 667-68, Iphigenia auf Tauris, II. 1. 140, 1922.

The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Work Out, World, Lord
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3511, Delphi Classics

This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Struggle, Class, Giving

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Appreciation, Eye, Rays

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Students, Observation, Equal
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.173, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I laugh at my heart, and do its will

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Laughing, My Heart

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Situations In Life, Stories, Scene
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.22, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Expectations, Cheated

Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Freedom, Mean, Doe
"Iphigenia auf Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, April 6, 1779.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science, Knowing, Study

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Humorous, Should, Knows
Quoted in Johann Peter Eckermann, Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life (1836 - 1848) (entry for 10 Apr. 1829)

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Criticism, Ridiculous, Synthetic

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Glasses, Light

When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beautiful, Men, Essence

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mother, Wisdom, Children
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Arnold Kaufmann (1963). “Goethe's Faust: part one and sections from part two”, Anchor

Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Devil, Culture, World
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1875). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.258

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Haste
Motto

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