Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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He who can not learn to love must flatter.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
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It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
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Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
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The aim of living is life itself.
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
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Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
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I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
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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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Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
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After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.
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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
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To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.