Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
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So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
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Nature's crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
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One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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Patriotism ruins history.
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The eternal feminine draws us on high.
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Nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das LebenDer täglich sie erobern muß.
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It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
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Time itself is an element.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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Tränenreiche Männer sind gut. Verlasse mich jeder, der trocknen Herzens, trockner Augen ist!
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
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A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
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Es gibt Fälle, ... wo jeder Trost niederträchtig und Verzweiflung Pflicht ist.
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Knowst thou the land where the lemon trees bloom,Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom,Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows,And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose?
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Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.
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Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replaces them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words.