Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The trouble is small, the fun is great.
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Manners form the great charm of women.
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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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Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
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Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
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To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.
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Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
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No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.
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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.
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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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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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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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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
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There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.
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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
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If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.