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Johann Wolfgang Goethe Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“One can foist anything in society, except what will have consequences.”
— Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: strategy
“Tranquility of the soul is wonderful, as is joyful peace of mind. If only, dear friend, these precious treasures, beautiful and priceless as they are, were not so fragile too.”
— Johann Wolfgang Goethe, GOETHE COMPLETE WORKS ULTIMATE COLLECTION 350+ WORKS All Poetry, Poems, Prose, Letters, Travels, Rarities - Including Faust, Werther, Wilhelm Meister, Iphiginie, Hermann and Dorothea PLUS BIOGRAPHY
Tagged: Life, Stoic
“General notions and great conceit are always potetial creators of shock misfortune.”
— Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: strategy
“So divine an illumination is always linked to youth and productivity; and in very truth, Napoleon was one of the most productive men that ever lived.”
— Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Napoleon
Tagged: strategy
“Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.”
— Johann Wolfgang Goethe, GOETHE COMPLETE WORKS ULTIMATE COLLECTION 350+ WORKS All Poetry, Poems, Prose, Letters, Travels, Rarities - Including Faust, Werther, Wilhelm Meister, Iphiginie, Hermann and Dorothea PLUS BIOGRAPHY
Tagged: Life, Stoic
“Some people keep knocking at the wall with a hammer and imagine they are hitting the nail on the head every time.”
— Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: strategy
“Poor fool! Imagining everything to be so small, because you are yourself so small.”
— Johann Wolfgang Goethe, GOETHE COMPLETE WORKS ULTIMATE COLLECTION 350+ WORKS All Poetry, Poems, Prose, Letters, Travels, Rarities - Including Faust, Werther, Wilhelm Meister, Iphiginie, Hermann and Dorothea PLUS BIOGRAPHY
Tagged: Life, Stoic
“No one knows the extent of his own powers til he has tested them.”
— Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: strategy
“All our learned teachers and educators agree that children do not know why they want what they want; but no one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze, and like children, do know not where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives and are as thorough governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod. And yet it seems palpably clear to me.”
— Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: strategy
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