Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Love
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, scientist, and the towering figure of German Classicism. This page collects quotes attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on the topic of love, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
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Attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
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“I hold to faith in the divine love — which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ — as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.”
(1773), translated by Albert Schweizer in Goethe: Five Studies (1961), Beacon Press, p. 53 -
“Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though she were still in love.”
Maxims and Reflections(1833) | Maxim 246, trans. Stopp