Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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 best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.
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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.
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The solution of every problem is another problem.
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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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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
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Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
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The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.
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It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
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The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.
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It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
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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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After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.
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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.
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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 eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
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Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
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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.