Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Und doch sehr oft, wenn wir uns von dem Beabsichtigten für ewig getrennt sehen, haben wir schon auf unserm Wege irgend ein anderes Wünschenswerthe gefunden, etwas uns Gemäßes, mit dem uns zu begnügen wir eigentlich geboren sind.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.
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Mehr Licht!
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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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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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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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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Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
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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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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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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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Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft.
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Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.
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I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.
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The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
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You are, when all is done-just what you are.
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Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?
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It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."
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The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
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Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages,That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone!If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him,His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.