Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Tell me you stones, O speak, you towering palaces!Streets, say a word! Spirit of this place, are you dumb?All things are alive in your sacred wallsEternal Rome, it's only for me all is still.
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You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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Alles ist einfacher, als man denken kann, zugleich verschränkter, als zu begreifen ist.
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Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.
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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.
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Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.
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The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.
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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
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Do not hurry; do not rest.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
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When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
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When one is polite in German, one lies.
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Mehr Licht!
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We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.