Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!
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Time flies, and what is past is done.
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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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Every form correctly seen is beautiful.
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He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.
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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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If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
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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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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.
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Bin ich ein Gott? Mir wird so licht!
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The rabble also vent their rage in words.
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It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
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Amerika, du hast es besser-als unser Kontinent, der alte.
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
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Investigate what is, and not what pleases.
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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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There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
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Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
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He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
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Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.