Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The deed is everything, the glory nothing.
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If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
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There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
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Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
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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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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.
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Mysteries do not as yet amount to miracles.
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We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
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At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.
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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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Wer immer strebend sich bemüht,Den können wir erlösen.
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Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down.
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Everything that liberates our mind without at the same time imparting self-control is pernicious.
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I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather....In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.
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And now the sagacious reader, who is capable of reading into these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception of the serious feelings with which I then set foot in Emmendingen.
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Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt.
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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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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.