Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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The world remains ever the same.
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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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To have more, you must first be more.
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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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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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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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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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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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All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.
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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 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 miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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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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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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A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.
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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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Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.
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One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
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The aim of living is life itself.
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If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.
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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.