Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.
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With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.
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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
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Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.
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The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.
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Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
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How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?
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If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.
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Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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Great passions are incurable diseases.
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Over all the mountain tops is peace.
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Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
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It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.
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Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.
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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
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Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.
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Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
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Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Born: August 28, 1749
- Died: March 22, 1832
- Occupation: Writer
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