Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
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The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.
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Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.
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Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.
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Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
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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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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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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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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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Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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Method will teach you to win time.
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There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
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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.