Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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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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Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
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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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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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Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.
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Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education.
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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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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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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
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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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He who moves not forward, goes backward.
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The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
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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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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
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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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As our inclinations, so our opinions.
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I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.