Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Frases en inglés (página 4)

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe libro Italian Journey

In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug.
Italian Journey (March 3, 1787)

“Association with women is the basic element of good manners.”

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Der umgang mit frauen ist das element guter sitten.
Maxim 31, trans. Stopp
Variant translation: The society of women is the foundation of good manners.
Variant translative: Intercourse with women is the element of good manners.
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.”

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Propylaea (1798) Introduction

“Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.”

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Maxim 739, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Götz von Berlichingen

Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.
Götz von Berlichingen, Act I (1773)

“Tell me you stones, O speak, you towering palaces!
Streets, say a word! Spirit of this place, are you dumb?
All things are alive in your sacred walls
Eternal Rome, it's only for me all is still.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe libro Roman Elegies

Elegy 1
Roman Elegies (1789)

“Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replaces them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words.”

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Maxim 428, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“Fair I was also, and that was my ruin.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe libro Fausto

Schön war ich auch, und das war mein Verderben.
A Prison
Faust, Part 1 (1808)

“No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe libro Elective Affinities

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

“I hold to faith in the divine love — which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ — as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.”

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(1773), translated by Albert Schweizer in Goethe: Five Studies http://archive.is/tOo5z (1961), Beacon Press, p. 53

“A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe libro Elective Affinities

Bk. II, Ch. 7
Elective Affinities (1809)

“Let the noble man
Be generous and good,
Tirelessly achieving
What is just and useful:
Let him be a model
For those beings whom he surmises.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Das Göttliche

Das Göttliche (The Divine) (1783)

“All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on our own, just as with life.”

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Letter to Carl Friedrich Zelter (26 November 1825)

“The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it…but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.”

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Essay on Experimentation

“A useless life is an early death.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Iphigenia in Tauris

Ein unnütz Leben ist ein früher Tod...
Act I, sc. ii
Iphigenie auf Tauris (1787)

“In limitations he first shows himself the master,
And the law can only bring us freedom.”

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Was Wir Bringen (1802)

“However often we turn to it [the Qur'an] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence… Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible — ever and anon truly sublime — Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, quoted in Dictionary of Islam (1895), by T.P. Hughes, p. 526

“Hypotheses are scaffoldings erected in front of a building and then dismantled when the building is finished. They are indispensable for the workman; but you mustn't mistake the scaffolding for the building.”

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Maxim 1222, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“My son, whoever wishes to keep a secret, must hide from us that he possesses one. Self complaisance over the concealed destroys its concealment.”

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Bk. I, Ch. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=q4JKAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Whoever+wishes+to+keep+a+secret+must+hide+from+us+that+he+possesses+one%22&pg=PA73#v=onepage
Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre (Journeyman Years) (1821–1829)

“Everything that liberates our mind without at the same time imparting self-control is pernicious.”

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Maxim 504, trans. Stopp
Variant translation: Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful.
Maxims and Reflections (1833)