Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character.
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
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How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
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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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When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
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The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
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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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Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
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One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.
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Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking.
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.
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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
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Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.
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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.
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Stupidity is without anxiety.
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
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Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.
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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.