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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Age

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time, Age, Faults

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age, Youth, Abundance

Wahrheit und Dichtung (Poetry and Truth) pt. 2, ch. 6 (1811 - 1833)

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time, Age, Faults

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time, Tolerance, Age

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowledge, Age, Poison

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.93, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time, Wish, Age

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Carl Friedrich Zelter (1892). “Goethe's Letters to Zelter: With Extracts from Those of Zelter to Goethe”

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Father, Son, Age

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wish, Age, Youth

The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men, Data, Age

Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Age, Toil

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children, Age, Literature

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wisdom, Age, World

Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children, Men, Age

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Birthday, Science, Age

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Age, Toil

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age, Desire, Youth

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time, Long, Age

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age, Youth, Fortune

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science, Men, Age

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth, Age, Dew

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

One spares old people just as one spares children.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children, People, Age

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mistake, Age, Needs

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Secular Music, Age, Cheerful

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mean, Age, Doe

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