Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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To every one Nature appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
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Every offense is avenged on earth.
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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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One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.
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Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.
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True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.
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Noble be man, helpful and good!
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Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.
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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
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Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
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A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
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Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
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Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
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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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It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.