Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
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You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.
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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
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He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
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Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.
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If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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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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There is no patriotic art.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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Create, artist, do not talk.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art.
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The aim of living is life itself.
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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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There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.
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To have more, you must first be more.
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Nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.
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The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
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I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.
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Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.
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Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.
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You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.
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Let there be truth between us.