Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.
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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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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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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
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What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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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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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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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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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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Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences.
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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.
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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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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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Every solution of a problem is a new problem.
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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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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.
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In art, the best is good enough.
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Let there be truth between us.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.