Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.
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Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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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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Alles Gescheite ist schon gedacht worden. Man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken.
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.
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Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt.
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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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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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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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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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Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.
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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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Meine Ruh' ist hin,Mein Herz ist schwer.
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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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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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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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In limitations he first shows himself the master,And the law can only bring us freedom.
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
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Die Liebe herrscht nicht, aber sie bildet; und das ist mehr!
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.