Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
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Und doch sehr oft, wenn wir uns von dem Beabsichtigten für ewig getrennt sehen, haben wir schon auf unserm Wege irgend ein anderes Wünschenswerthe gefunden, etwas uns Gemäßes, mit dem uns zu begnügen wir eigentlich geboren sind.
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People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.
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Zwey Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust.
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The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.
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In limitations he first shows himself the master,And the law can only bring us freedom.
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Tell me you stones, O speak, you towering palaces!Streets, say a word! Spirit of this place, are you dumb?All things are alive in your sacred wallsEternal Rome, it's only for me all is still.
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Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
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I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.
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We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
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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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You are, when all is done-just what you are.
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Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
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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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Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.
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Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.
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Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.
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Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte.
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The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
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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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Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
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Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.