Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
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The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.
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Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.
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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
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I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
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In limitations he first shows himself the master,And the law can only bring us freedom.
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.
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When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.
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People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?
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Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.
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Meine Ruh' ist hin,Mein Herz ist schwer.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.
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'I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.'
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Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.