Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.
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True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.
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If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
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Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is just two times two, and that is what we call four for short. But four is nothing new at all. And thus it goes on and on in its conclusions, except that in the higher formulas the identity fades out of sight.
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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
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One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.
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Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
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At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
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How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
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Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
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Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!
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Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
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I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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He who can not learn to love must flatter.
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Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.
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Doubt grows with knowledge.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
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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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Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.