Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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 understanding begins in wonder!
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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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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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.
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We must be young to do great things.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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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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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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All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.
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If only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.
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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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Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.
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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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Create, artist, do not talk.
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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 natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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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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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.