Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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All things are only transitory.
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Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
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There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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One says a lot in vain, refusing;The other mainly hears the 'No.'
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Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.
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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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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
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Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.
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Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking.
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.
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One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?
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Manners form the great charm of women.
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Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.
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Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.
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The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.
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Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
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The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.