Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.
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Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
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In comradeship is danger countered best.
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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
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Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
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Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
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He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
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We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
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The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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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.