Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
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Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
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He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?
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Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
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There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others.
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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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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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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
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We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.
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Habit is the most imperious of all masters.
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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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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.
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Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life!
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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.