Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
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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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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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My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.
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He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
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Mystery is truth's dancing partner.
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Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
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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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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
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The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
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To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
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There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.
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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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The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
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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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Age merely shows what children we remain.