Top 1758 Quotes & Sayings by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Page 3
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
The unnatural, that too is natural.
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Age merely shows what children we remain.
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
Superstition is the poetry of life.
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!
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
In art the best is good enough.
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
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.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
The world remains ever the same.
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
Mastery passes often for egotism.
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