Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.
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Hypotheses are scaffoldings erected in front of a building and then dismantled when the building is finished. They are indispensable for the workman; but you mustn't mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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Mehr Licht!
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Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt.
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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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Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.
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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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Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.
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Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken.
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We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
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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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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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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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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.
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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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In limitations he first shows himself the master,And the law can only bring us freedom.
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.
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So gewiß ist der allein glücklich und groß, der weder zu herrschen noch zu gehorchen braucht, um etwas zu sein!
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Da stehe ich nun, ich armer Thor!Und bin so klug als wie zuvor.
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People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
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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.