Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Frases en inglés (página 2)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe era escritor alemán. Frases en inglés.
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“Who science has and art
He has religion too
Who neither of them owns
Religion is his due.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst besitzt, / Hat auch Religion / Wer jene beiden nicht besitzt / Der habe Religion
As quoted in Jost Lemmerich's "Science and Conscience: The Life of James Franck" (2011), p. 261.
Variant translation: "The man who science has and art, He also has religion. But he who is devoid of both, He surely needs religion." (as quoted in "Homilies of science" by Paul Carus (1892) and The Open Court, Weekly Journal, Vol. II (1887).
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830)

“Who wants to understand the poem
Must go to the land of poetry;
Who wishes to understand the poet
Must go to the poet's land.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

West-östlicher Diwan, motto (1819)

“If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.”

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Letter to Eckermann (4 February 1829)

“All Nine often used to come to me, I mean the Muses:
But I ignored them: my girl was in my arms.
Now I’ve left my sweetheart: and they’ve left me,
And I roll my eyes, seeking a knife or rope.
But Heaven is full of gods: You came to aid me:
Greetings, Boredom, mother of the Muse.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Epigram 27
Venetian Epigrams (1790)

“Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Iphigenia in Tauris

Act IV, sc. iv
Iphigenie auf Tauris (1787)

“Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe libro Elective Affinities

Bk. II, Ch. 4
Elective Affinities (1809)

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

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Attributed

“He alone is great and happy who fills his own station of independence, and has neither to command nor to obey.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Götz von Berlichingen

So gewiß ist der allein glücklich und groß, der weder zu herrschen noch zu gehorchen braucht, um etwas zu sein!
Alternative translation: So certain is it that he alone is great and happy, who requires neither to command nor to obey, in order to secure his being of some importance in the world.
Götz von Berlichingen, Act I (1773), p. 39
Fuente: Goethe’s Works, vol. 3, Götz Von Berlichingen (With the Iron Hand) http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=2113&layout=html#chapter_164458
Fuente: Beautiful thoughts from German and Spanish authors, by C. T. Ramage (1868) https://archive.org/stream/beautifulthough00unkngoog#page/n112/mode/2up

“Law is mighty, mightier necessity.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe libro Fausto

Act I, A Spacious Hall
Faust, Part 2 (1832)

“O'er all the hilltops
Is quiet now,
In all the treetops
Hearest thou
Hardly a breath;
The birds are asleep in the trees:
Wait; soon like these
Thou too shalt rest.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe libro Wanderer's Nightsong

Wandrers Nachtlied (Wanderer's Nightsong)

“The message well I hear, my faith alone is weak”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe libro Fausto

Die Botschaft hör ich wohl, allein, mir fehlt der Glaube
Faust's Study
Faust, Part 1 (1808)

“Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized.”

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Der Irrthum verhält sich gegen das Wahre wie der Schlaf gegen das Wachen. Ich habe bemerkt, daß man aus dem Irren sich wie erquickt wieder zu dem Wahren hinwende.
Maxim 331, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“No matter how far our spiritual culture may continue to progress, no matter how much the natural sciences may grow, becoming ever more profound and more inclusive, no matter how much the human spirit may will to expand, that human spirit will never escape from the majesty and ethical sublimity of Christianity, as it shimmers and shines in the Gospels.”

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A message to Eckermann on March 11, (1832), translated by Albert Schweizer in Goethe: Five Studies http://archive.is/tOo5z (1961), Beacon Press, p. 56

“When you see some evil you proceed to immediate action, you make an immediate attack to cure the symptom.”

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Maxim 598, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“Only mankind
Can do the impossible:
He can distinguish,
He chooses and judges,
He can give permanence
To the moment.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Das Göttliche

Das Göttliche (The Divine) (1783)

“What is Classical is healthy; what is Romantic is sick.”

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Das Klassische nenne ich das Gesunde und das Romantische das Kranke.
Maxim 1031, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“A burgher may acquire merit; by excessive efforts he may even educate his mind; but his personal qualities are lost, or worse than lost, let him struggle as he will. Since the nobleman, frequenting the society of the most polished, is compelled to give himself a polished manner; since this manner, neither door nor gate being shut against him, grows at last an unconstrained one; since, in court or camp, his figure, his person, are a part of his possessions, and it may be the most necessary part, — he has reason enough to put some value on them, and to show that he puts some.”

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Goethe, translated by Thomas Carlyle (1824), cited in: Jürgen Habermas (1989) Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, English ed. p. 12

“Am I a god? I see so clearly!”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe libro Fausto

Bin ich ein Gott? Mir wird so licht!
Night, Faust in His Study
Faust, Part 1 (1808)

“People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wir sprechen überhaupt viel zu viel. Wir sollten weniger sprechen und mehr zeichnen. Ich meinerseits möchte mir das Reden ganz abgewöhnen und wie die bildende Natur in lauter Zeichnungen fortsprechen.
Attributed to Goethe by Johannes Falk in Goethe aus näherm persönlichen Umgange dargestellt (1832). http://www.literatur-live.de/salon/_falk_goethe.pdf
Attributed

“People say, “Artist, study nature!” But it is no small matter to develop what is noble out of what is common, beauty out of what lacks form.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man sagt: „Studire, Künstler, die Natur!”
Es ist aber keine Kleinigkeit, aus dem Gemeinen das Edle, aus der Unform das Schöne zu entwickeln.
Maxim 191, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)