Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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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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Of all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
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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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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.
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Mehr Licht!
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Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.
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Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt.
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Die Liebe herrscht nicht, aber sie bildet; und das ist mehr!
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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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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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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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If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
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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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For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
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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.
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Much there is I can stand. Most things not easy to sufferI bear with quiet resolve, just as a God commands it.Only a few things I find as repugnant as snakes and poison.These four: tobacco smoke, bedbugs and garlic and Christ.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?
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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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I love those who yearn for the impossible.