Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
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Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?
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There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
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We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
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How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.
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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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Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.
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Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.
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Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.
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The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.
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The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.
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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
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The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.
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Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.
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Character calls forth character.
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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.