Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
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Every offense is avenged on earth.
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character; and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
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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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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
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One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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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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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
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God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.