Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
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Character calls forth character.
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Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!
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Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]
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Seeking with the soul the land of the Greeks.
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Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperch, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.
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The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.
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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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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.
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The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
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If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
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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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A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.
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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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The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.