Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Our virtues and view spring from one root.
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One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.
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Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
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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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It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.
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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
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Translators are like busy match-makers: they sing the praises of some half-veiled beauty, and extol her charms, and arouse an irresistible longing for the original.
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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 are our own aptest deceiver.
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Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
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Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.
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If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.
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Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.
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Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
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We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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The trouble is small, the fun is great.
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I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.
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What then is your duty? What the day demands.