Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Originality provokes originality.
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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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How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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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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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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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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Noble be man, helpful and good!
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Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.
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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
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Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.
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At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.
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Doubt grows with knowledge.
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Mystery is truth's dancing partner.
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
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An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.
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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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My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.