Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Let there be truth between us.
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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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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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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
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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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There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.
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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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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
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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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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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Beware of a man of one book.
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Everything is hard before it is easy.
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The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and the key to it, it will be possible to go on for ever inventing plants and know that their existence is logical; that is to say, if they do not actually exist, they could, for they are not the shadowy phantoms of a vain imagination, but possess an inner necessity and truth. The same law will be applicable to all other living organisms.
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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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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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
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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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All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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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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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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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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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.