Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.
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Die Wahrheit widerspricht unserer Natur, der Irrthum nicht, und zwar aus einem sehr einfachen Grunde: die Wahrheit fordert, daß wir uns für beschränkt erkennen follen, der Irrthum schmeichelt uns. wir seien auf ein- oder die andere Weise unbegränzt.
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In limitations he first shows himself the master,And the law can only bring us freedom.
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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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When you see some evil you proceed to immediate action, you make an immediate attack to cure the symptom.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. . . . Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out.
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Meine Ruh' ist hin,Mein Herz ist schwer.
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Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft.
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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
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Colour itself is a degree of darkness.
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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
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Wenn mancher sich nicht verpflichtet fühlte, das Unwahre zu wiederholen, weil er’s einmal gefügt hat, fo wären es ganz andere Leute geworden.
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Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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I have often felt a bitter sorrow at the thought of the German people, which is so estimable in the individual and so wretched in the generality. A comparison of the German people with other peoples arouses a painful feeling, which I try to overcome in every possible way.
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The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
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Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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However often we turn to it the Qur'an at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence... Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.
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People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.
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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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Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.