Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.
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The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
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The rabble also vent their rage in words.
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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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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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One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame.
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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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Every second is of infinite value.
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Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.
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What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
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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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Ich singe, wie der Vogel singtDer in den Zweigen wohnet.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.
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Collectors are happy people.
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Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
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Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
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Wishes are premonitions of abilities.
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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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There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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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.