Goethe Quotes

Architecture is frozen music.

Beautiful is greater than Good for it includes the Good.

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.

A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Life belongs to the living and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

We must always change renew rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

If children grew up according to early indications we should have nothing but geniuses.

Unlike grownups children have little need to deceive themselves.

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.

What you can do or dream you can do begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.

We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.

People may live as much retired from the world as they please but sooner or later before they are aware they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment where I long once more for desire.

Man errs as long as he struggles.

Man must strive and in striving he must err.

Thou must (in commanding and winning or serving and losing suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

Genius develops in quiet places character out in the full current of human life.

If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

Let us live while we are alive!

Even the lowliest provided he is whole can be happy and in his own . way perfect.

He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others And in their pleasure takes joy even as though t'were his own.

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy even as though it were his own.

He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.

There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.

When an idea is wanting a word can always be found to take its place.

And here poor fool with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.

One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.

Love does not dominate it cultivates.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Cursed Mammon be when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!

If a man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is indeed a species of sagacity-a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

The unnatural - that too is natural.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do.

How many years you have to keep on doing until you know what to do and how to do!

Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it and others do just the same with their time.

It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.