Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Great passions are incurable diseases.
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A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others.
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Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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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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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.
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I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.
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Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!
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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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You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.
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He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.
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Only the heart without a stain knows ease.
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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Writing is busy idleness.
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Time flies, and what is past is done.
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If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.
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The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
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As great, everlasting, Adamantine laws Dictate, we must all Complete the cycles Of our existence.
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.