Johann Wolfgang Goethe idézet (225 idézet, oldal 6)

Man darf nur alt werden, um milder zu sein; ich sehe keinen Fehler begehen, den ich nicht auch begangen hätte.
Maxim 240, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“Translators are like busy match-makers: they sing the praises of some half-veiled beauty, and extol her charms, and arouse an irresistible longing for the original.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Maxim 426; translation by Bailey Saunders
Maxims and Reflections (1833)

“What's it to you if I love you?”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Philine in Bk. IV, Ch. 9
Variant translation: If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830)

“Of freedom and of life he only is deserving
Who every day must conquer them anew.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe könyv Faust

Nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das Leben
Der täglich sie erobern muß.
Variant translations:
Freedom and life are earned by those alone
Who conquer them each day anew.
trans. Walter Kaufmann
He only earns his freedom and existence,
Who daily conquers them anew.
trans. Bayard Taylor
Act V, Court of the Palace
Faust, Part 2 (1832)

“Patriotism ruins history.”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Conversation with Friedrich Wilhem Riemer (July, 1817)

“He who seizes the right moment is the right man.”

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“Wie viele Sprachen du sprichst, sooft mal bist du Mensch.”

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Translation: As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being. Also attributed to Charles V, w:Pierre de Bourdeille and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. Source: John G. Robertson "Robertson's Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Combining Elements" https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=RFqlPtTSB2kC&pg=PA250&lpg=PA250&dq=Quot+linguas+calles,+tot+homines+vales.&source=bl&ots=EtA4qFqwbn&sig=C9citjpkEkL6ZjovF9_4_AQ1cCw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwji4ICXl5XRAhULESwKHRp9C6cQ6AEILjAC#v=onepage&q=Quot%20linguas%20calles%2C%20tot%20homines%20vales.&f=false Source: Ralph H. Orth "Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VI: 1824-1838" https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=tRkEF22PEKUC&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=Pierre+de+Bourdeille+%22Quot+linguas+calles,+tot+homines+vales%22&source=bl&ots=2sQJLK949I&sig=suLWcF0FCKwf5_J7rPscH0C5ru4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi53_uWmpXRAhXMhywKHY-TBDwQ6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=Pierre%20de%20Bourdeille%20%22Quot%20linguas%20calles%2C%20tot%20homines%20vales%22&f=false Source: Český jazyk a literatura (Czech Language and Literature), Volume 56, Issues 1-5, p 54 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=x6hhAAAAMAAJ&q=Kolik+jazyk%C5%AF+zn%C3%A1%C5%A1,+tolikr%C3%A1t+jsi+%C4%8Dlov%C4%9Bkem.+masarykovo&dq=Kolik+jazyk%C5%AF+zn%C3%A1%C5%A1,+tolikr%C3%A1t+jsi+%C4%8Dlov%C4%9Bkem.+masarykovo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TQ4YT8mxEcPj4QSw89jIDQ&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAQ (2006): "Masaryk's "As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being" does not refer only to the ability to communicate in different languages, but also the ability to share in various spiritual spheres of different cultures." Source: Example references: _sooft_mal_bist_du_Mensch. _J.W._Goethe.html http://blog.goethe.de/deutsch-wagen-tour/archives/1750-Wie_viele_Sprachen_du_sprichst,, http://www.radio.cz/de/rubrik/gesagt/wie-viele-sprachen-du-sprichst-sooft-mal-bist-du-mensch, http://www.szkola.misjonarki.pl/attachments/article/148/Wie%20viele%20Sprachen%20du%20sprichst%20konkurs%20gimnzjum.pdf. Attributed

“The child’s desire to have distinctions made in his ideas grew stronger every day. Having learned that things had names, he wished to hear the name of every thing supposing that there could be nothing which his father did not know. He often teased him with his questions, and caused him to inquire concerning objects which, but for this, he would have passed without notice. Our innate tendency to pry into the origin and end of things was likewise soon developed in the boy. When he asked whence came the wind, and whither went the flame, his father for the first time truly felt the limitation of his own powers, and wished to understand how far man may venture with his thoughts, and what things he may hope ever to give account of to himself or others. The anger of the child, when he saw injustice done to any living thing, was extremely grateful to the father, as the symptom of a generous heart. Felix once struck fiercely at the cook for cutting up some pigeons. The fine impression this produced on Wilhelm was, indeed, erelong disturbed, when he found the boy unmercifully tearing sparrows in pieces and beating frogs to death. This trait reminded him of many men, who appear so scrupulously just when without passion, and witnessing the proceedings of other men. The pleasant feeling, that the boy was producing so fine and wholesome an influence on his being, was, in a short time, troubled for a moment, when our friend observed, that in truth the boy was educating him more than he the boy.”

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Book VIII – Chapter 1
Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre (Journeyman Years) (1821–1829)

“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation. The boy stands astonished, his impressions guide him: he learns sportfully, seriousness comes on him by surprise. Imitation is born with us: what should be imitated is not easy to discover. The excellent is rarely found, more rarely valued. The height charms us, the steps to it do not: with the summit in our eye, we love to walk along the plain. It is but a part of art that can be taught: the artist needs it all. Who knows it half, speaks much, and is always wrong: who knows it wholly, inclines to act, and speaks seldom or late. The former have no secrets and no force : the instruction they can give is like baked bread, savory and satisfying for a single day; but flour cannot be sown, and seed-corn ought not to be ground. Words are good, but they are not the best. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the highest matter. Action can be understood and again represented by the spirit alone. No one knows what he is doing while he acts aright, but of what is wrong we are always conscious. Whoever works with symbols only is a pedant, a hypocrite, or a bungler. There are many such, and they like to be together. Their babbling detains the scholar: their obstinate mediocrity vexes even the best. The instruction which the true artist gives us opens the mind; for, where words fail him, deeds speak. The true scholar learns from the known to unfold the unknown, and approaches more and more to being a master.”

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Book VII Chapter IX
Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre (Journeyman Years) (1821–1829)

“Nun aber wird der einsichtige Leser, welcher fähig ist, zwischen diese Zeilen hineinzulesen, was nicht geschrieben steht, aber angedeutet ist, sich eine Ahnung der ernsten Gefühle gewinnen, mit welchen ich damals Emmendingen betrat.”

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http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Goethe,+Johann+Wolfgang/Autobiographisches/Aus+meinem+Leben.+Dichtung+und+Wahrheit/Vierter+Teil/Achzehntes+Buch www.zeno.org

“People have to become really bad before they care for nothing but mischief, and delight in it.”

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Maxims and Reflections (1833)
Eredeti: (de) Wenn die Menschen recht schlecht werden, haben sie keinen Anteil mehr als die Schadenfreude.

“It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.”

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“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”

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“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”

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