Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.
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Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.
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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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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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Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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Mehr Licht!
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Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.
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Getting along with women, Knocking around with men, Having more credit than money, Thus one goes through the world.
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It is delivery that makes the orators success.
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I am the Spirit that denies.
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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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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.
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Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.
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You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.
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One must be something to be able to do something.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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Let the noble man Be generous and good, Tirelessly achieving What is just and useful: Let him be a model For those beings whom he surmises.
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Zwey Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust.
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The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
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There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.
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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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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.