Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
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Miracle is the pet child of faith.
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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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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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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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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If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.
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If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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We must be young to do great things.
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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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All understanding begins in wonder!
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To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.
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Everything is hard before it is easy.
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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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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.