Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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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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The world remains ever the same.
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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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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The aim of living is life itself.
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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
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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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The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.
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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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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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To have more, you must first be more.
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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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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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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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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Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
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The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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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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He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.
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One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.