Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.
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Nichts ist höher schätzen als der Werth des Tages.
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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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Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own way, perfect.
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Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.
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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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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable English Theatre.
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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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It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
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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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Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
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It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
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The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
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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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One lives but once in the world.
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Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
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The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
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My son, whoever wishes to keep a secret, must hide from us that he possesses one. Self complaisance over the concealed destroys its concealment.
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Investigate what is, and not what pleases.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.