Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty 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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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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If only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.
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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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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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We must be young to do great things.
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We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.
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The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.
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Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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All understanding begins in wonder!
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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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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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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
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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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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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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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Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.
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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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He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.