Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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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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Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World.
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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.
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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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Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.
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Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences.
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Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.
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Let there be truth between us.
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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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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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Only law can give us freedom.
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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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There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.
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Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.
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Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.
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Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
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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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Live dangerously and you live right.