Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
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Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
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We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert.
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Stupidity is without anxiety.
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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
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What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.
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All things are only transitory.
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There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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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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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.
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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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If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
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We are our own aptest deceiver.
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I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.