Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.
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All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.
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Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
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God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
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The present is a powerful deity.
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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.
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The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.
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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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Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
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Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
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All things are only transitory.
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
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Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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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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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
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Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.
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He who can not learn to love must flatter.