Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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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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To have more, you must first be more.
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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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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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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 hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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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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The aim of living is life itself.
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Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
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If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
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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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In art, the best is good enough.
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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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Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.
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Miracle is the pet child of faith.
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We must be young to do great things.
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If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.
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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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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.