"Age merely shows what children we remain."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Personality is everything in art and poetry."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"In art the best is good enough."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"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."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"To rule is easy, to govern difficult."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Few people have the imagination for reality."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Nothing is worth more than this day."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"I love those who yearn for the impossible."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Doubt grows with knowledge."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Character develops itself in the stream of life."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"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."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"I call architecture frozen music."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Wisdom is found only in truth."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Superstition is the poetry of life."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe