Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art.
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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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If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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Nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.
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Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.
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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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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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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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If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.
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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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As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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Every solution of a problem is a new problem.
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He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.
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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
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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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The world remains ever the same.