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The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Religion, Atheism

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Agriculture, Sowing, Farming

What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character, Development, Tests
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.46

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Weight, Felt, Oppressed
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1815). “The Sorrows of Werter: A Pathetic Story”, p.29

What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character, Spirit, Bosoms

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love, Self, Faults
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1858). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.197

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dog, Criticism, Strikes

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Doe, Culture, World
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.189

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sleep, Aristocracy, Noble
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.230, Ravenio Books

Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Strive, Strife

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tree, Green, Golden

There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ignorance, Als, Active

Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children, Men, Age

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Experience, Limits, Fields
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3536, Delphi Classics

Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Noble, Deeds, Soil
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1976). “Faust: a tragedy : backgrounds and sources, the author on the drama, contemporary reactions, modern criticism”, W. W. Norton & Company

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Evil, Left
"Faust". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, I. 6. 174, 1808.

Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Succeed
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 311-13, Faust, I. 7. 73, 1922.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Good Man, Way

To a valet no man is a hero.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hero, Men, Valet
"Elective Affinities". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, II. 5., 1809.

And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ignorance, Fool, Poor
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.15

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Opportunity, Men, Moments
BookCaps, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.161, BookCaps Study Guides

Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Prayer, Lying, Past

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bible, Meditation, Fruit
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1824). “Memoirs of Goethe:”, p.410

Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Strong, Looks, Use

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Progress, Culture, World

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