Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
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No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.
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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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Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.
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Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
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Das Klassische nenne ich das Gesunde und das Romantische das Kranke.
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I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.
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What sort of God would it be, who only pushed from without.
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The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
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No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
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Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
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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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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
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If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.
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Amerika, du hast es besser-als unser Kontinent, der alte.
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Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.