Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Frases en inglés (página 3)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe era escritor alemán. Frases en inglés.
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“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit — this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe libro Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

Die Welt ist so leer, wenn man nur Berge, Flüsse und Städte darin denkt, aber hie und da jemand zu wissen, der mit uns übereinstimmt, mit dem wir auch stillschweigend fortleben, das macht uns dieses Erdenrund erst zu einem bewohnten Garten.
"Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre," in Goethes Sämmtliche Werke, vol. 7 (Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta, 1874), p. 520
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830)

“Among all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt life's dream most beautifully.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt.
Maxim 298, trans. Stopp
Variant translation by Saunders: Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life the best. (189)
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Torquato Tasso

Torquato Tasso, Act I, sc. ii (1790)

“Getting along with women,
Knocking around with men,
Having more credit than money,
Thus one goes through the world.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe libro Claudine von Villa Bella

Claudine von Villa Bella (1776)

“You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.”

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Maxim 281, trans. Stopp
Variant translation: Only when we know little do we know anything. Doubt grows with knowledge.
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“Nothing should be treasured more highly than the value of the day.”

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Nichts ist höher schätzen als der Werth des Tages.
Maxim 789, trans. Stopp
Variant translation by Saunders: Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day. (332)
Variant translation: Nothing is worth more than this day.
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.”

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Maxim 715, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Attributed to Zig Ziglar
Misattributed

“One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe libro Elective Affinities

Bk. II, Ch. 2
Elective Affinities (1809)

“Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily

Die Liebe herrscht nicht, aber sie bildet; und das ist mehr!
Das Märchen (1795), as translated by Hermann J. Weigand in Wisdom and Experience (1949); also translated elsewhere as The Fairy-Tale, The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily, and simply The Tale]
Variant translations:
Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.
As translated by Thomas Carlyle The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (1832)
Love rules (and reigns) not, but it forms (builds and 'trains'); and that is more!
As quoted in "'Human Immortalities : The Old and the New" by Thaddeus Burr Wakeman, in The Open Court Vol. XX, No. 1 (January 1906), p. 104

“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”

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Widely attributed to Goethe, but also claimed to be a distortion of a passage by Haim Ginott.
Disputed

“Do you wish to roam farther and farther?
See the good that lies so near.
Just learn how to capture your luck,
for your luck is always there.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Erinnerung

Willst du immer weiterschweifen?
Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah.
Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen,
denn das Glück ist immer da.
Variant translation:
Do you wish to roam farther and farther?
See! The Good lies so near.
Only learn to seize good fortune,
For good fortune's always here.
Erinnerung

“Beloved, don't fret that you gave yourself so quickly!
Believe me, I don't think badly or wrongly of you.
The arrows of Love are various: some scratch us,
And our hearts suffer for years from their slow poison.
But others strong-feathered with freshly sharpened points
Pierce to the marrow, and quickly inflame the blood.
In the heroic ages, when gods and goddesses loved,
Desire followed a look, and joy followed desire.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe libro Roman Elegies

Elegy 3
Roman Elegies (1789)

“Nothing is more frightful than to see ignorance in action.”

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Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tätige Unwissenheit.
Maxim 542, trans. Stopp
Variant translation by Saunders: Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. (231)
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“There's nothing clever that hasn't been thought of before — you've just got to try to think it all over again.”

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Maxim 441, trans. Stopp

Variant translation: All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“Mysteries do not as yet amount to miracles.”

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Maxim 210, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.”

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Maxim 382, trans. Stopp
Variant translation: First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“If some people hadn’t felt obliged to repeat what is untrue simply because they had at one point maintained it, they would have turned into quite different people.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wenn mancher sich nicht verpflichtet fühlte, das Unwahre zu wiederholen, weil er’s einmal gefügt hat, fo wären es ganz andere Leute geworden.
Maxim 586, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“The world is a bell that is cracked: it clatters, but does not ring out clearly.”

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Die Welt ist eine Glocke, die einen Riß hat: sie klappert, aber klingt nicht.
Maxim 193, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Die Kunst ist lang, das Leben kurz, das Urteil schwierig, die Gelegenheit flüchtig.
Bk. VII, Ch. 9
Cf. Hippocrates, Ars longa vita brevis, Aphorisms 1:1
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830)