Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.
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If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.
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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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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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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
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The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.
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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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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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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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Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
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The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.
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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
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National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.
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Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
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Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.
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Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.
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Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.
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Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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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.