Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.
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For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.
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Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
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All is born of water; all is sustained by water.
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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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The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.
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If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."
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My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.
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Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
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Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.
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When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind.
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If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.
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The trouble is small, the fun is great.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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Over all the mountain tops is peace.
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The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!
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For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair; When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.