Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
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Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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Der thörigste von allen Irrthümern ist, wenn junge gute Köpfe glauben, ihre Originalität zu verlieren, indem sie das Wahre anerkennen, was von andern schon anerkannt worden.
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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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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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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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Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
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Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
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Das Klassische nenne ich das Gesunde und das Romantische das Kranke.
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The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.
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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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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
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There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.
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A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.
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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
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Bin ich ein Gott? Mir wird so licht!
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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.