Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
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Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?
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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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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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A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
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Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.
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Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.
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No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.
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There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
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Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.
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If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.
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Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
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Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.