Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
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The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
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The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity affecting the whole body of science, known, it is true, to men of insight, but not generally admitted.
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In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug.
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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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Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.
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It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.
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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.
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Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
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How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.
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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
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The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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When you see some evil you proceed to immediate action, you make an immediate attack to cure the symptom.
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Association with women is the basis of good manners.