Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
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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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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
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It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
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Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair; When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
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Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.
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Duration in change.
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The smallest hair throws its shadow.
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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.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
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Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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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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Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.
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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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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
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The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.