Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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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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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking.
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The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.
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Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.
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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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Habit is the most imperious of all masters.
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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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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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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.