Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
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Schön war ich auch, und das war mein Verderben.
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You are, when all is done-just what you are.
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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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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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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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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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We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
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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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Die Wahrheit widerspricht unserer Natur, der Irrthum nicht, und zwar aus einem sehr einfachen Grunde: die Wahrheit fordert, daß wir uns für beschränkt erkennen follen, der Irrthum schmeichelt uns. wir seien auf ein- oder die andere Weise unbegränzt.
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Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft.
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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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Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
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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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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.
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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
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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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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.
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The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.
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Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages,That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone!If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him,His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.
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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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One must be something to be able to do something.