Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
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We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
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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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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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All things are only transitory.
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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
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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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If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
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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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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.
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The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.
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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
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The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.
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Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.
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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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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
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I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
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The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.