Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
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Tränenreiche Männer sind gut. Verlasse mich jeder, der trocknen Herzens, trockner Augen ist!
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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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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 first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.
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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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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
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One must be something in order to do something.
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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
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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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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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You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
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A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
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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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When one is polite in German, one lies.
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To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
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Alles ist einfacher, als man denken kann, zugleich verschränkter, als zu begreifen ist.
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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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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
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The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.