Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.
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All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.
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Giving is the business of the rich.
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When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.
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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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Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
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To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
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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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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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It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.
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Each animal is an end in itself.
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What we do not understand we do not possess.
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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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All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.