Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
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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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I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.
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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
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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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I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven planets, revolving round the sun, than the first among five moons revolving round Saturn.
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So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.
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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.
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Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.
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What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.
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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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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
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As our inclinations, so our opinions.
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Es ist so gewiß als wunderbar, daß Wahrheit und Irrthum aus Einer Quelle entstehen; deßwegen man oft dem Irrthum nicht schaden darf, weil man zugleich der Wahrheit schadet.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.
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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
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Great passions are incurable diseases.
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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
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A good person, striving dimly, Is well aware of the right path.