Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
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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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What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!
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Only law can give us freedom.
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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
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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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Everything is hard before it is easy.
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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Giving is the business of the rich.
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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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I will be lord over myself.
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What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
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What we do not understand we do not possess.
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All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.
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Each animal is an end in itself.
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It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.