Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
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Every solution of a problem is a new problem.
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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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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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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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A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time.
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We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art.
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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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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Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.
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He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
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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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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.