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Blood is a very special juice.

Blood is a very special juice.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Blood, Special, Juice
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (2011). “Faust”, p.135, Bantam Classics

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

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Wise, Lying, Character

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Friendship, Trying, Found

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sorrow, Alas
"The Natural Daughter". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, II. 3. 17, 1803.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Marriage, Society, Foundation

Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dream, Rome, World
"Italian Journey". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1816.

Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mistake, Science, Building

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fate, Winning, Suffering

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fate, Spurs, Treasure
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.57

It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape; it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony; if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth, Air, Bells
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.51, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Murder, Contradiction, Conversation
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.134, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression.... The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Eye, Heart, Yellow
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Theory of Colours”, p.169, Courier Corporation

It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mistake, Half, Quarters
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.51, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wise, Attention, Branches
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life, Success, Song
'Faust' pt. 1 (1808) 'Studierzimmer'

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Atheism, World, Woe

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
World

The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth And then returning to earth, forever alternating.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Water, Forever
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1882). “The Poems of Goethe”, Richard West

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Depth, Blind
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.11, Univ of California Press

America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
America, Continents
Almanac for the Muses (1831)

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Acting, Actors, Lessons

Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter?

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Acting, Matter, Actors

Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Frozen, Architecture, Dies

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fashion, Art, Serious

In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Infinite, Should

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