Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
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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 intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
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He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.
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Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
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The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
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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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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
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The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
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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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The happy do not believe in miracles.
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The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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Art will always be art.
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Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.
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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
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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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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.