Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.
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Once a man's thirty, he's already old,He is indeed as good as dead.It's best to kill him right away.
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Wer nichts wagt, gerwinnt nichts. Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß,Wer nie die kummervollen NächteAuf seinem Bette weinend saß,Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte.
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There's nothing clever that hasn't been thought of before - you've just got to try to think it all over again.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]
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Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.
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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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Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
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What's it to you if I love you?
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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable English Theatre.
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The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.
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What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
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As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
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Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
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The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.
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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.
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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
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O'er all the hilltopsIs quiet now,In all the treetopsHearest thouHardly a breath;The birds are asleep in the trees:Wait; soon like theseThou too shalt rest.
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Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion.
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A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.