Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
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Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it.
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The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.
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They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!
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I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
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The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.
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Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.
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Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
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I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
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We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.