Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Schön war ich auch, und das war mein Verderben.
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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 force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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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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Law is mighty, mightier necessity.
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Die Botschaft hör ich wohl, allein, mir fehlt der Glaube
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Ein echter deutscher Mann mag keinen Franzen leiden,Doch ihre Weine trinkt er gern.
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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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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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Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
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Ein unnütz Leben ist ein früher Tod...
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The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.
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Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
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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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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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There is nothing new on earth For a person who lives long and experiences much. In my years of youthful wandering I have seen crystallized people.
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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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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte.
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I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
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How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?
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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.