Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
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In comradeship is danger countered best.
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
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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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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.
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Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!
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Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
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The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.
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Der Irrthum verhält sich gegen das Wahre wie der Schlaf gegen das Wachen. Ich habe bemerkt, daß man aus dem Irren sich wie erquickt wieder zu dem Wahren hinwende.
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Experience is only half of experience.
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Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.
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Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.
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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
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Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.