Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
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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 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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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
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The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
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In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.
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Da stehe ich nun, ich armer Thor!Und bin so klug als wie zuvor.
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Wer nichts wagt, gerwinnt nichts. Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß,Wer nie die kummervollen NächteAuf seinem Bette weinend saß,Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte.
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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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If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
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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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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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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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Schön war ich auch, und das war mein Verderben.
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The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.
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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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A world without love would be no world.
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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.