Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
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Great passions are incurable diseases.
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As our inclinations, so our opinions.
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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
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Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
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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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Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
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Bin ich ein Gott? Mir wird so licht!
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Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love.
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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic.
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One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame.
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In comradeship is danger countered best.
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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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You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.
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The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.
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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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Der thörigste von allen Irrthümern ist, wenn junge gute Köpfe glauben, ihre Originalität zu verlieren, indem sie das Wahre anerkennen, was von andern schon anerkannt worden.
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This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.
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Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.