Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.
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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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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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I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.
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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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Every offense is avenged on earth.
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The people rate strength before everything.
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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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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.
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Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.
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Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
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There is no patriotic art.
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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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People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
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It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
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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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My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
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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.