Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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'I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.'
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Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft.
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Ich bedauere die Menschen, welche von der Vergänglichkeit der Dinge viel Wesens machen und sich in Betrachtung irdischer Nichtigkeit verlieren. Sind wir ja eben deßhalb da, um das Vergängliche unvergänglich zu machen; das kann ja nur dadurch geschehen, wenn man beides zu schätzen weiß.
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When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.
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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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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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Much there is I can stand, and most things not easy to suffer I bear with quiet resolve, just as a god commands it. Only a few I find as repugnant as snakes and poison - These four: tobacco smoke, bedbugs, garlic, and †.
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Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.
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One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.
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As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
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Schön war ich auch, und das war mein Verderben.
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Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education.
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These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.
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I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.
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A violet on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way. Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.
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Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.
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Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.