Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
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The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
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Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replaces them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words.
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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.
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When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
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Tränenreiche Männer sind gut. Verlasse mich jeder, der trocknen Herzens, trockner Augen ist!
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You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
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Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst besitzt, / Hat auch Religion / Wer jene beiden nicht besitzt / Der habe Religion
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
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Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
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A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
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The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
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Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.
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When one is polite in German, one lies.