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Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Did I not feel charmed at those truly genuine expressions of nature, which, though but little mirthful in reality, so often amused us? By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

O full and splendid Moon, whom I Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A useless life is an early death By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A useless life is an early death.[Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.] By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

An unused life is an early death. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Mistrust all those in whom the desire to punish is imperative - Goethe By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Men's wretchedness in soothe I so deplore, Not even I would plague the sorry creatures more. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Habit is the most imperious of all masters. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge- it is the end. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest everwhat thou art. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Let it go out, the sun's fire, If light dawns inside our souls, In our own hearts we'll discover What the outer world withholds. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Think of you! I do not think of you; you are always before my soul. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'! By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

4Often do I strive to allay the burningfever of my blood; and you have never witnessed anything sounsteady, so uncertain, as my heart. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What you feed in yourself that grows. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The time for useful work flies fast. Why talk of being in the humor? Who hesitates will never be. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Colors are light's suffering and joy By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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? By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Content and peace of mind are valuable things: I could wish, my dear friend, that these precious jewels were less transitory. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like? By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of scepticism with faith. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache! By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it? By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Oh, I envy you!" he cried. "You are still nourished by yesterday's alms, but yesterday's happiness no longer nourishes me. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What we don't understand we don't possess. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone! By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Sing it not in mournful numbers. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Indeed, I am nothing but a wanderer and a pilgrim on this earth! And what more are you? By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you? By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Fools and wise-folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He calls it reason, using it To be more beast than ever beast was yet. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Like star that shines afar, slowly now, and without rest, let each man turn with steady sway, around the task that rules the day, and do his best. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Yes, here within thy sanctified walls there's a soul in each object, By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.[Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.] By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

So much simplicity with so much understanding - so mild, and yet so resolute - a mind so placid, and a life so active. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Grant me one hour on love's most sacred shoresTo clasp the bosom that my soul adores,Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.[Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.] By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All our knowledge is symbolic. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To break up the Roman Empire and to give a new order to the world is the first and principle historical task of the Germans. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers.[Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.] By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I'm glad that I am not young in so thoroughly finished a world. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The world turns gray, the air grows cool, the fog blows in. Only at evening can you really value home. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Where one day she'll be glimpsed: creature who'll scorch me with love? By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he! By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is no truer, warmer pleasure in this world than to behold a great soul opening up towards oneself. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels? By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Noble be man, helpful and good! By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It's a shame that Nature made you only one man; there was material enough for a worthy man and a rogue. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and to possess the aptitude and perseverance to attain it. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Man imagines himself to be conducting his own life; and irresistibly his inmost being is drawn to its fate. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Power is neither male nor female. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened,If still they live, rove through the world now saddened. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We would rather admit our moral errors, mistakes and crimes than our scientific errors. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I am the Spirit that denies. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing is so hard to bear as a train of happy days By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say! By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life is not light, but refracted colour. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Combine truth and invention for the sake of a closer approach to reality By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing is worth more than this day. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

By seeking and blundering we learn. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The present moment is a powerful goddess. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Where there are no women there are no good manners By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Let many things unfold before their eyes, Let the crowd stare and be amazed, for then You'll win their hearts, and that's to win the prize; By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is no patriotic art. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Dust shall he eat, and greedily,like my celebrated serpent-cousin By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students? By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you ask what the people here are like, I must tell you, "Like people everywhere!" Uniformity marks the human race. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I know I can trust in my heart ... that she ... dare I, can I express heaven in a few words? That she loves me. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Yes, one is on the right track when one does not know what one is thinking when one is thinking; everything is handed to one, as it were. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It's irrelevant whether what one says is true or false: both will be contradicted. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent! By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When people really deteriorate, their only contribution is malicious joy in the misfortune of others. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Tell me with whom you consort and I will tell you who you are; if I know how you spend your time, then I know what might become of you. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Collectors are happy people. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Science arose from poetry ... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All theory is gray, but the tree of life, my friend, is green. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

15General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He who cannot love must learn to flatter. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed! By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas! By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Man is too prone, at best, to seek the way that's easy, He soon grows fond of unconditioned rest; By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Just take a look at our patrons, and you'll knowSome don't appreciate us, others never will. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

As long as on the earth endures his lifeTo deal with him have full and free permission;Man's hour on earth is weakness, error, strife. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To be active is the primary vocation of man. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is no crime of which I cannot conceive myself guilty. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768) By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Oh dear, oh dear, that our frames should lack Wings with which to match our soaring spirit, By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My peace is gone, my heart is heavy.[Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin,Mein Herz ist schwer.] By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One cannot escape from the world with greater certainty than through art, and one cannot relate to it with greater certainty than through art. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing is true, but that which is simple. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Common sense is the genius of humanity. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Everyone only hears what he understands. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He who can not learn to love must flatter. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth And then returning to earth, forever alternating. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness? By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Must we go tinkering about with Nature before we can enjoy it? By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

How clearly I have seen my condition, yet how childishly I have acted. How clearly I still see it, and yet show no sign of improvement. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Mystery is truth's dancing partner. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you want to understand poetry,You have to go to its origin,If you want to understand the poet,You have to go to the Poet's home. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I love those who yearn for the impossible. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Beauty can never really understand itself. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Our virtues and view spring from one root. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity . By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Suffer or triumph, be the hammer or the anvil. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is no day that one should skipBut one should seize, without distrust,The possible with iron grip By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Every offense is avenged on earth. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Here the old man said with a smile: 'Love does not rule, but it trains, and that is more. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My worthy friend, gray are all theoriesAnd green alone Life's golden tree. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease.[Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.] By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I do not speak of what I cannot praise. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is delivery that makes the orators success. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We're only really thinking when we can't think out fully what we are really thinking about! By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I've often heard it said a preachermight learn with a comedian for a teacher. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man? By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves? By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchman. They translate into their own language whatever is said to them and forthwith the thing is utterly changed. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For those ashamed of him Cupid reserves the bitterest passions. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I am part of the part that once was everything,Part of the darkness which gave birth to light ... Mephistopheles, from Faust. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Lamplight, console me till then, harbinger warm of the night. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Man errs as long as he strives. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If I love you, what business is it of yours? By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Let there be truth between us. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A distracted existence leads us to no goal By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Gray is the color of all theory By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Turn them into summer lightning! When spirits injure and abuse us, Magic must step in to save us. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Give shape, artist! don't talk!Your poem be but a breath. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When we have lost ourselves, we have lost everything. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Over all the mountain tops is peace. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Oh, oh! You have destroyed the beautiful world. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Ask whomever you will but you'll never find out where I'm lodging By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All that is transitory is but a metaphor. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Personality is everything in art and poetry. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Be valiant and powerful forces will come to your aid. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Every step of life shows much caution is required. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There are no means of safety against superior qualities of another person but to love him. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I am the spirit of perpetual negation. (Mephistopheles) By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere." By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Thoughts come back; beliefs persist; facts pass by never to return. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

As our inclinations, so our opinions. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The best pleasures of this world are not quite true. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Giving is the business of the rich. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

As he came leaping in, the poodle did not heed it.The matter now seems turned about;The Devil's in the house and can't get out. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe