Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life!
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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.
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He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
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The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.
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When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
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Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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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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If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
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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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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.