Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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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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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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Duration in change.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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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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The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.
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The words you've bandied are sufficient; 'Tis deeds that I prefer to see.
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The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.
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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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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
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All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.
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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
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If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
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Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.