Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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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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Getting along with women, Knocking around with men, Having more credit than money, Thus one goes through the world.
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Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education.
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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
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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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Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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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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The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.
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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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Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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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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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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One must be something to be able to do something.
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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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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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.