Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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One must be something to be able to do something.
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In limitations he first shows himself the master,And the law can only bring us freedom.
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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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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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Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.
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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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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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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
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Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.
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Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
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Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.
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Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.
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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
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Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.
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Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
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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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Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, . . . but he also wins.
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We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
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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.