Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
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To have more, you must first be more.
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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
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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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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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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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Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.
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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
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That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
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It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
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Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
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Miracle is the pet child of faith.
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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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People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
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One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
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Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.
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As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
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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.