Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
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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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Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
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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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Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
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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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Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.
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The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.
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Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.
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Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion.
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All perishable is but an allegory.
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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable English Theatre.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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Seeking with the soul the land of the Greeks.
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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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'No matter how far our spiritual culture may continue to progress, no matter how much the natural sciences may grow, becoming ever more profound and more inclusive, no matter how much the human spirit may will to expand, that human spirit will never escape from the majesty and ethical sublimity of Christianity, as it shimmers and shines in the Gospels.'
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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Das Klassische nenne ich das Gesunde und das Romantische das Kranke.