Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.
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Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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Let there be truth between us.
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When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.
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No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist.
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Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.
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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
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One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting.
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I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.
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It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
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There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.
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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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Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
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The world remains ever the same.
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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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All understanding begins in wonder!
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I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.