Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Genius
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Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
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There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
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Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.
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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
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Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.
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Common sense is the genius of humanity.
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It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.
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The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
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It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
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