Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
Blood is a very special juice.
What's it to you if I love you?
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
To recognize God where and as he reveals himself is the only true bliss on earth.
Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals, never to the age.
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Every man hears only what he understands.
Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
Nature has neither kernel, nor shell, she is everything, all at once.
He is the happiest man who can set the end of his life in connection with the beginning.
Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
The further knowledge advances, the nearer we come to the unfathomable.
The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.
The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.
Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.