Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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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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All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
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Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.
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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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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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As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.
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Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
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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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It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
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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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Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.
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Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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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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The world remains ever the same.