Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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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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Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.
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Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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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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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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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 greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
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All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.
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A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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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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You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.
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Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.
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Create, artist, do not talk.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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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 rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.
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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.