Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.
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There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.
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Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!
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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
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You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere.
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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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It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.
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A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.
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Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
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Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.
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Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.
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If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
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Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
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Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.
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Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.