Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
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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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The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.
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And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.
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The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
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One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.
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Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.
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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
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There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.
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The present is a powerful deity.
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From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.
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And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.
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If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
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What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.
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The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.
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No one should be rich except those who understand it.
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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
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A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.
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Let us live, while we are alive!
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God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.