Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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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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Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
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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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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.
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We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
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The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.
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Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.
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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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Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.
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If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.
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The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
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Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
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Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.
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Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.