Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.
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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
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A good person, striving dimly, Is well aware of the right path.
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Collectors are happy people.
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Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
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A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others.
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This is why we may say that those who parade piety as a purpose and an aim mostly turn into hypocrites
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One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
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It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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Das Klassische nenne ich das Gesunde und das Romantische das Kranke.
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New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
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As our inclinations, so our opinions.
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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Chess is the touchstone of intellect.
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If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.
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One errs as long as one strives.
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The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.
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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
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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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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.