Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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There is but one poetry-true poetry.
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Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.
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Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
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Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
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Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.
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Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
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I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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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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There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.
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Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?
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Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.
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Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
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Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
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If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.
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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.