Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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Beware of a man of one book.
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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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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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Only law can give us freedom.
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What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
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Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
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Everything is hard before it is easy.
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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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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Giving is the business of the rich.
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All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.
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I will be lord over myself.
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Each animal is an end in itself.
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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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It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.