Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
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.
The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere
A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education
Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.
He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.
When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
