Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
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The world is full of contradiction.
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Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.
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Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.
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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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The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.
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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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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time.
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War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
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What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.
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Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.