Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.
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Power is neither male nor female.
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All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.
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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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To have more, you must first be more.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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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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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
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Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.
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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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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.
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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.
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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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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Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences.
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We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!
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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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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.