Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.
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The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance.
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Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.
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Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
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The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.
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In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.
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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
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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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Ich singe, wie der Vogel singtDer in den Zweigen wohnet.
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You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
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Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.
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No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.
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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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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
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Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.
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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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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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In comradeship is danger countered best.