Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
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Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.
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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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The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
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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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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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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.
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If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.
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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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In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
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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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One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.
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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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The solution of every problem is another problem.
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It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
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The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
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If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
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Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.