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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.

If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Teacher, Soul, Your Soul

The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Women, Soul
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bayard Taylor (1950). “Faust, a tragedy”

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Soul, Noble
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.3, 谷月社

Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Distance, Soul, Mind
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2017). “The Sorrows of Young Werther (English German Edition, illustrated): Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Englisch Deutsch Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.51, Clap Publishing, LLC.

To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ideas, Giving, Soul

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hope, Soul, Unhappy
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3536, Delphi Classics

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Soul, Noble, Nobility

The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Christian, Soul, Worship

Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Struggle, Two, Soul
Faust pt. 1 "Vor dem Thor" (1808)

The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Past, Media, Soul
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.114, Univ of California Press

Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hypocrite, Mean, Soul
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3516, Delphi Classics

Only the soul that loves is happy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love Is, Soul

two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Two, Soul, Mastery
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Missing, Soul, Alive

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Soul, Eternity, Activity
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.108

Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.

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

The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Soul, Despair, New Life

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