Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.
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What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.
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The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.
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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
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There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
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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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Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.
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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
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Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.