Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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Manners form the great charm of women.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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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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Es gibt kein äußeres Zeichen der Höflichkeit, das nicht einen tiefen sittlichen Grund hätte. Die rechte Erziehung wäre, welche dieses Zeichen und den Grund zugleich überlieferte.
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
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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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Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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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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Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
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From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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Our virtues and view spring from one root.
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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
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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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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.