Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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Only the soul that loves is happy.
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.
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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.
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Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.
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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
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Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.
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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
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Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
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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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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
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Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.
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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.
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.