Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Only the soul that loves is happy.
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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.
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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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The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
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The smallest hair throws its shadow.
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The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.
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Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
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When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind.
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Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!
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There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
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It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.
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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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When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
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The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
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There is but one poetry-true poetry.