Goethe's Life and Character Maxims
8 individually reviewed maxims from Life and Character in the 1906 edition of Saunders' English translation of Goethe, with author, translator and non-endorsement context.
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In contemplation as in action, we must distinguish between what may be attained and what is unattainable.…
A maxim in Life and Character in the 1906 edition of T. Bailey Saunders' English translation of Goethe. It is presented as a historically attributed text, not as present-day fact, diagnosis or advice.
Maxim · Sentence · Keyword indexYou cannot play the flute by blowing alone: you must use your fingers.
A maxim in Life and Character in the 1906 edition of T. Bailey Saunders' English translation of Goethe. It is presented as a historically attributed text, not as present-day fact, diagnosis or advice.
Maxim · Sentence · Keyword indexIt is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half-, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and…
A maxim in Life and Character in the 1906 edition of T. Bailey Saunders' English translation of Goethe. It is presented as a historically attributed text, not as present-day fact, diagnosis or advice.
Maxim · Sentence · Keyword indexNothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
A maxim in Life and Character in the 1906 edition of T. Bailey Saunders' English translation of Goethe. It is presented as a historically attributed text, not as present-day fact, diagnosis or advice.
Maxim · Sentence · Keyword indexIt is not enough to know, we must also apply; it is not enough to will, we must also do.
A maxim in Life and Character in the 1906 edition of T. Bailey Saunders' English translation of Goethe. It is presented as a historically attributed text, not as present-day fact, diagnosis or advice.
Maxim · Sentence · Keyword indexError is continually repeating itself in action, and we must unweariedly repeat the truth in word.
A maxim in Life and Character in the 1906 edition of T. Bailey Saunders' English translation of Goethe. It is presented as a historically attributed text, not as present-day fact, diagnosis or advice.
Maxim · Sentence · Keyword indexDifficulties increase the nearer we come to our aim.
A maxim in Life and Character in the 1906 edition of T. Bailey Saunders' English translation of Goethe. It is presented as a historically attributed text, not as present-day fact, diagnosis or advice.
Maxim · Sentence · Keyword indexLove of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.
A maxim in Life and Character in the 1906 edition of T. Bailey Saunders' English translation of Goethe. It is presented as a historically attributed text, not as present-day fact, diagnosis or advice.