Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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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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We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.
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The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
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Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
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Experience is only half of experience.
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The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
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Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
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Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperch, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.
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Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
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Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
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We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
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Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.