Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
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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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There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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Power is neither male nor female.
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting.
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If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
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I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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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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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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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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The aim of living is life itself.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.