Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.
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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
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He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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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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There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.
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The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry, "Here we are." You expend effort and energy thinking hard. Then, after you have given up, they come sauntering in with their hands in their pockets. If the effort had not been made to open the door, however, who knows when they could have come.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
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It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.
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The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.
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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
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Only the soul that loves is happy.
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.
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As great, everlasting, Adamantine laws Dictate, we must all Complete the cycles Of our existence.
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Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.