Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
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Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.
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No one should be rich except those who understand it.
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Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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Over all the mountain tops is peace.
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If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life!
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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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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
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No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
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Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
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Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
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If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.
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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.