Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.
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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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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
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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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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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All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.
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Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.
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Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.
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If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.
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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
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Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.
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If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
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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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Live dangerously and you live right.