Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?
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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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.
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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
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Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
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What's it to you if I love you?
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Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.
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A good person, striving dimly, Is well aware of the right path.
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In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug.
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It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.
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The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
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Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
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Piety is not an end but a means to attain by the greatest peace of mind the highest degree of culture.
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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
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Man must strive, and striving he must err.
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How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
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Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
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And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.
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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
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It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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Was glänzt, ist für den Augenblick geboren;das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.