Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.
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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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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Who wants to understand the poemMust go to the land of poetry;Who wishes to understand the poetMust go to the poet's land.
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Es gibt Fälle, ... wo jeder Trost niederträchtig und Verzweiflung Pflicht ist.
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
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A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
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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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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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You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
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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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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
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Colour itself is a degree of darkness.
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Alles ist einfacher, als man denken kann, zugleich verschränkter, als zu begreifen ist.
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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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Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis.
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When one is polite in German, one lies.