Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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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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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
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Nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das LebenDer täglich sie erobern muß.
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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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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
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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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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
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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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The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.
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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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Time itself is an element.
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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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Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.
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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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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 world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
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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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Tränenreiche Männer sind gut. Verlasse mich jeder, der trocknen Herzens, trockner Augen ist!
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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
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When one is polite in German, one lies.