Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
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The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.
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Mysteries do not as yet amount to miracles.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. Not in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth; Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.
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The deed is everything, the glory nothing.
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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
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Everything that liberates our mind without at the same time imparting self-control is pernicious.
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Tränenreiche Männer sind gut. Verlasse mich jeder, der trocknen Herzens, trockner Augen ist!
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Wer immer strebend sich bemüht,Den können wir erlösen.
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When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Much there is I can stand. Most things not easy to sufferI bear with quiet resolve, just as a God commands it.Only a few things I find as repugnant as snakes and poison.These four: tobacco smoke, bedbugs and garlic and Christ.
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A world without love would be no world.
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Hypotheses are scaffoldings erected in front of a building and then dismantled when the building is finished. They are indispensable for the workman; but you mustn't mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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Der Handelnde ist immer gewissenlos; es hat niemand Gewissen als der Betrachtende.
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Die Wissenschaft hilft uns vor allem, daß sie das Staunen, wozu wir von Natur berufen find.
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Da stehe ich nun, ich armer Thor!Und bin so klug als wie zuvor.
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Let the noble man Be generous and good, Tirelessly achieving What is just and useful: Let him be a model For those beings whom he surmises.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.