Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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It is delivery that makes the orators success.
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Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
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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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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
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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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Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.
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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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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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Mehr Licht!
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I am the Spirit that denies.
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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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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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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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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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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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Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.
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You are, when all is done-just what you are.
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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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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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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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Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.