Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
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One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
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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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Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
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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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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.
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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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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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All understanding begins in wonder!
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Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.
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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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All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
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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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Live dangerously and you live right.
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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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To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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To create something you must be something.
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The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.