Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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All Nine often used to come to me, I mean the Muses:But I ignored them: my girl was in my arms.Now I’ve left my sweetheart: and they’ve left me,And I roll my eyes, seeking a knife or rope.But Heaven is full of gods: You came to aid me:Greetings, Boredom, mother of the Muse.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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However often we turn to it the Qur'an at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence... Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.
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The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
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The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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Mehr Licht!
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I have often felt a bitter sorrow at the thought of the German people, which is so estimable in the individual and so wretched in the generality. A comparison of the German people with other peoples arouses a painful feeling, which I try to overcome in every possible way.
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Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.
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Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.
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If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
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Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt.
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Die Botschaft hör ich wohl, allein, mir fehlt der Glaube
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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Da stehe ich nun, ich armer Thor!Und bin so klug als wie zuvor.
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Die Welt ist so leer, wenn man nur Berge, Flüsse und Städte darin denkt, aber hie und da jemand zu wissen, der mit uns übereinstimmt, mit dem wir auch stillschweigend fortleben, das macht uns dieses Erdenrund erst zu einem bewohnten Garten.
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Die Liebe herrscht nicht, aber sie bildet; und das ist mehr!
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Wenn mancher sich nicht verpflichtet fühlte, das Unwahre zu wiederholen, weil er’s einmal gefügt hat, fo wären es ganz andere Leute geworden.
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Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
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Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.