Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
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Writing is busy idleness.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
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Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
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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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Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education.
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It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
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The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care; And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives.
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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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The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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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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The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.