Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous.
A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.
The deed is all, and not the glory.
Patriotism ruins history.
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
The errors of a man are what make him really lovable.
One lives but once in the world.
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.
There is strong shadow where there is much light.
Man errs as long as he strives.
Oh my, but art is long and our life is fleeting.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
With knowledge grows doubt.
We all live on the past, and through the past are destroyed.
A useless life is an early death.
Investigate what is, and not what pleases.
For the rest of it, the last and greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.
Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more.
If you want to reach the infinite, explore every aspect of the finite.
I call architecture frozen music.
A world without love would be no world.
First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.
Over all the mountain tops is peace.
In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
One must be something in order to do something.
Beauty can never really understand itself.
I love those who yearn for the impossible.