Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
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You are, when all is done-just what you are.
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Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.
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Die Wahrheit widerspricht unserer Natur, der Irrthum nicht, und zwar aus einem sehr einfachen Grunde: die Wahrheit fordert, daß wir uns für beschränkt erkennen follen, der Irrthum schmeichelt uns. wir seien auf ein- oder die andere Weise unbegränzt.
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Die Kunst an und für sich selbst ist edel; deßhalb fürchtet sich der Künstler nicht vor dem Gemeinen. Ja indem er es aufnimmt, ist es schon geadelt, und so sehen wir die größten Künstler mit Kühnheit ihr Majestätsrecht ausüben.
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The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
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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.
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Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment.
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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One lives but once in the world.
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I'm gazing at church and palace, ruin and column,Like a serious man making sensible use of a journey,But soon it will happen, and all will be one vast temple,Love's temple, receiving its new initiate.Though you're a whole world, Rome, still, without Love,The world isn't the world, and Rome can't be Rome.
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The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.
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Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
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Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
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It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
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Das Klassische nenne ich das Gesunde und das Romantische das Kranke.
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As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own way, perfect.
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Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.