Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.
The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.
The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression.... The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us.
If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.
The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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.
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.
An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.
Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.
