Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?
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For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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A world without love would be no world.
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Much there is I can stand. Most things not easy to sufferI bear with quiet resolve, just as a God commands it.Only a few things I find as repugnant as snakes and poison.These four: tobacco smoke, bedbugs and garlic and Christ.
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
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Da stehe ich nun, ich armer Thor!Und bin so klug als wie zuvor.
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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken.
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Die Wissenschaft hilft uns vor allem, daß sie das Staunen, wozu wir von Natur berufen find.
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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.
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When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.
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If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
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For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
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Alles ist einfacher, als man denken kann, zugleich verschränkter, als zu begreifen ist.
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One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Hypotheses are scaffoldings erected in front of a building and then dismantled when the building is finished. They are indispensable for the workman; but you mustn't mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
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I have often felt a bitter sorrow at the thought of the German people, which is so estimable in the individual and so wretched in the generality. A comparison of the German people with other peoples arouses a painful feeling, which I try to overcome in every possible way.