Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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All is born of water; all is sustained by water.
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Over all the mountain tops is peace.
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Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
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Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.
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Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.
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Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.
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A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.
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A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
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People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.
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When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind.
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Our virtues and view spring from one root.
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Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.