Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Schön war ich auch, und das war mein Verderben.
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Association with women is the basis of good manners.
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Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.
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Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
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Der umgang mit frauen ist das element guter sitten.
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Life is too short to drink bad wine.
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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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I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.
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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
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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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Meine Ruh' ist hin,Mein Herz ist schwer.
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The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.
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Law is mighty, mightier necessity.
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Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.
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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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We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
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Young Schopenhauer, a zealous and thorough-going Kantian, tried to explain that light would cease to exist along with the seeing eye. 'What!' he said, according to Schopenhauer's own report, 'looking at him with his Jove-like eyes,'-'You should rather say that you would not exist if the light could not see you?'
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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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O'er all the hilltopsIs quiet now,In all the treetopsHearest thouHardly a breath;The birds are asleep in the trees:Wait; soon like theseThou too shalt rest.
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Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
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Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.
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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.