Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Passion

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Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passion, Phoenix, Ashes

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passion, Phoenix, Ashes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.761, Delphi Classics

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passion, Feelings, May

Great passions are incurable diseases.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passion, Disease, Incurable Disease

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.113

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passion, Power, Vices

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dream, Passion, May

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.276

I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Bad Day, Passion

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passion, Law, Weapons

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passion, Virtue, Defects

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

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passion, Heart, Poetry

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

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passion, Heart, Fate

Elective Affinities bk. 2, ch. 3 (1808)