Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
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I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
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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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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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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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All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.
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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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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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Stupidity is without anxiety.
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What sort of God would it be, who only pushed from without.
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Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.
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Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.
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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.
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No one should be rich except those who understand it.
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How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
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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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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.