Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe quotes

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

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

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

I call architecture frozen music.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

I call architecture frozen music.

On all the peaks lies peace.

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

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

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

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

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

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

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

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

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

A useless life is an early death.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

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.

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

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

In art the best is good enough.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

All things are only transitory.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

An unused life is an early death.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

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

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

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

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

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

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

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.