Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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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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Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.
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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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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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I am the Spirit that denies.
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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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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It is delivery that makes the orators success.
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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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Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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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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There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.
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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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Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.
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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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Zwey Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust.
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Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, . . . but he also wins.