Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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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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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
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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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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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To create something you must be something.
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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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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Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.
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Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
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True happiness springs from moderation.
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At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.
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Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.
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But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
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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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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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The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
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Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.