Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Das Klassische nenne ich das Gesunde und das Romantische das Kranke.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
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To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.
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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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One errs as long as one strives.
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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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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
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Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
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Great passions are incurable diseases.
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
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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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This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.
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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually only amuses himself or makes sport of us, as, for instance, the naturalist or historian. But a single action or event is interesting, not because it is explainable, but because it is true.
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A good person, striving dimly, Is well aware of the right path.
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Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.
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The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
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If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.