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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One lives but once in the world.
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Law is mighty, mightier necessity.
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I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.
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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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In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug.
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He who moves not forward, goes backward.
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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.
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With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.
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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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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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It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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Association with women is the basis of good manners.
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Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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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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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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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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Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment.
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An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
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Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.
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How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.