Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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Getting along with women, Knocking around with men, Having more credit than money, Thus one goes through the world.
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.
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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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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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I am the Spirit that denies.
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It is delivery that makes the orators success.
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Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.
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Mehr Licht!
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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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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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There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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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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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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In limitations he first shows himself the master,And the law can only bring us freedom.
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All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.