Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
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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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Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
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As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.
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One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
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It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.
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If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
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The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
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Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.
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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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If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.
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In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.