Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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A violet on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way. Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.
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Nichts ist höher schätzen als der Werth des Tages.
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Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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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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Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.
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Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.
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Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.
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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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You are, when all is done-just what you are.
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
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Law is mighty, mightier necessity.
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.
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Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.
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When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.
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Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
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Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.
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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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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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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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Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.