Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
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Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
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If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.
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Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
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A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.
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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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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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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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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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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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From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.
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As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.
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I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.
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The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.
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Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?
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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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After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.