Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The aim of living is life itself.
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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 rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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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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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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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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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action.
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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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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
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In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
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Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
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Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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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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Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.
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Let us live, while we are alive!
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Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.