Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
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Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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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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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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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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The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.
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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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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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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.
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One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.
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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
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If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.