Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
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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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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed.
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Mehr Licht!
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Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
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Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
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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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The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may; The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright as at creation's day.
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To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.
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It is delivery that makes the orators success.
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Zwey Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust.
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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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Meine Ruh' ist hin,Mein Herz ist schwer.
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The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.
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Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
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Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.