Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.
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Es gibt Fälle, ... wo jeder Trost niederträchtig und Verzweiflung Pflicht ist.
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
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Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?
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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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Und doch sehr oft, wenn wir uns von dem Beabsichtigten für ewig getrennt sehen, haben wir schon auf unserm Wege irgend ein anderes Wünschenswerthe gefunden, etwas uns Gemäßes, mit dem uns zu begnügen wir eigentlich geboren sind.
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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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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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Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
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You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
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Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.
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He is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as Divine Law, and not as a book of a human being made for education or entertainment.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.
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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
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Nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das LebenDer täglich sie erobern muß.
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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.
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Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
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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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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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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.