Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Die Welt ist so leer, wenn man nur Berge, Flüsse und Städte darin denkt, aber hie und da jemand zu wissen, der mit uns übereinstimmt, mit dem wir auch stillschweigend fortleben, das macht uns dieses Erdenrund erst zu einem bewohnten Garten.
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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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Mehr Licht!
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It is delivery that makes the orators success.
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To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.
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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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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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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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I am the Spirit that denies.
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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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Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.
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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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Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.
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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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Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
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Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
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You are, when all is done-just what you are.
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Zwey Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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In limitations he first shows himself the master,And the law can only bring us freedom.
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A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed.
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Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte.
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Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.