Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.
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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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Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.
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We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.
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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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The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.
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A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.
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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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Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.
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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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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
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Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
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My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.
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I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.
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I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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There is strong shadow where there is much light.
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Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.
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There is no patriotic art.
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The people rate strength before everything.
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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.
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Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.
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All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.
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It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.