Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes

It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.

I've often heard it said, a preacherMight learn, with a comedian for a teacher.

National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours.

When he comes to the doorhe always looks mocking and half-way angry.You can see he has sympathy for nothing.It's written on his foreheadthat he can love no one.

Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledgefor mankind in polished speechesthat are no more than vaporous windsrustling the fallen leaves in autumn.

Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments.

There is no higher or purer pleasure than to sit with closed eyes and hear a naturally expressive voice recite... a play of Shakespeare's.

One who has passed the thirtieth yearalready is as good as dead--it would be best to kill you off by then.

Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.

Love does not dominate it cultivates.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts.

Love does not dominate it cultivates.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

An unused life is an early death.

I call architecture frozen music.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

In art the best is good enough.

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.