Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
-
Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
-
What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
-
A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.
-
English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable English Theatre.
-
Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
-
The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
-
A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]
-
Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
-
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
-
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
-
What's it to you if I love you?
-
I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
-
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
-
Piety is not an end but a means to attain by the greatest peace of mind the highest degree of culture.
-
The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
-
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
-
Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion.
-
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.
-
'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.'
-
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.
-
The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
-
Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
-
How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
-
What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.