Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others.
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Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
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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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If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.
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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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It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking.
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I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
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Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
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Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
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The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.
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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.
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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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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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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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Duration in change.
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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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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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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.