Friday, July 29, 2022

Aphorisms: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


 

Aphorisms

Brief and doctrinal sentence that is proposed as a rule in a science or art.


 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Germany: 1749-1832

 

 

 

 

1. Sometimes our destiny resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would have thought that those branches would green up and bloom? More we hope that it will be so, and we know that it will be so.

2. Fortunately, man can only understand a certain degree of misfortune; beyond this degree, misfortune annihilates him or leaves him indifferent.

 3. Acting is easy, thinking is difficult; acting as you think is even more difficult.

 4. Artist! Plasm! Do not speak!

5. It is indeed good to acquire, but it is much better to keep

. 6. Understanding means being able to do.

 7. Certain books seem to have been written not to learn from them, but to recognize what their author knew.

 8. With knowledge doubts are accredited.

 9. Against stupidity, even the gods fight in vain.

 10. What is the best government? The one who teaches us to govern ourselves.

 11. When man does not find himself, he does not find anything.

 12. We must give up our existence to truly exist.

13. Where interest is lost, memory is also lost.

 14. Art is the safest means of isolating oneself from the world as well as of penetrating it.

 15. The coward only threatens when he is safe.

16. The human spirit advances continuously, but always in a spiral.

17. The happy man is one who, being king or peasant, finds peace in his home.

 18. The man who feels fear without danger invents the danger to justify his fear.

 19. Evil is only in your mind and not in the external. The pure mind always sees only the good in everything, but the bad one is in charge of inventing the bad.

 20. The closest to perfection is the one who, with a penetrating gaze, declares himself limited.

 21. The child is realistic; the boy, idealistic; the man, skeptic, and the old mystic.

 22. The organ with which I have understood the world has been the eye.

 23. He who with insight recognizes the limitation of his faculties, he is very close to reaching perfection.

 24. Talent is educated in calm, and character in the storm.

 25. At a given moment in life, we die without being buried. Our destiny has been fulfilled. The world is full of dead people, although she ignores it.

 26.

 The one who has nothing to lose is dangerous.

 27. This is the last conclusion of wisdom: freedom and life are deserved if they are conquers them every day.

 28.

 We are here to make the perishable imperishable; and this can happen only if you know how to value both things.

 29. Happy is he who recognizes in time that his wishes are not in accordance with his faculties.

 30. There are two peaceful powers: right and cunning.

 

With affection,

Ruben

 

 

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