Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Power is neither male nor female.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

โ€ŽIt has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

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.

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

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Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.

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The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

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