Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Meine Ruh' ist hin,Mein Herz ist schwer.
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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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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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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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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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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
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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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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
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So gewiß ist der allein glücklich und groß, der weder zu herrschen noch zu gehorchen braucht, um etwas zu sein!
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Man darf nur alt werden, um milder zu sein; ich sehe keinen Fehler begehen, den ich nicht auch begangen hätte.
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If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
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Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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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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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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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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Wer nichts wagt, gerwinnt nichts. Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß,Wer nie die kummervollen NächteAuf seinem Bette weinend saß,Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte.
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Getting along with women, Knocking around with men, Having more credit than money, Thus one goes through the world.