Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.
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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
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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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You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.
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If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.
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Let us live, while we are alive!
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One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
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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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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.
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Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.
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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action.
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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 witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.
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Every offense is avenged on earth.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
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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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Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
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The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.