Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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In art, the best is good enough.
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The aim of living is life itself.
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Age merely shows what children we remain.
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action.
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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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Miracle is the pet child of faith.
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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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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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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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We must be young to do great things.
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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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I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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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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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art.
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Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.
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Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.