Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.
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It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
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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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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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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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Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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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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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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The smallest hair throws its shadow.
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In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
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Our virtues and view spring from one root.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
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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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All things are only transitory.
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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
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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.