Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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The solution of every problem is another problem.
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The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.
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Every second is of infinite value.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
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Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
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Manners form the great charm of women.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.
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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
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The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
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It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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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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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
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What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
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One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.