Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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The trouble is small, the fun is great.
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When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind.
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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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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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment.
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There is but one poetry-true poetry.
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For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.
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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
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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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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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Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.
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He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.
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What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.
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It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.