Discover and share Quotes Love Goethe. Explore our collection of motivational and famous quotes by authors you know and love. Quotes by Johann von Goethe “Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.” “The highest wisdom, and the best of mankind ever knew, was the realization that he only earns his freedom and existence, who daily conquers them anew.” “There is strong shadow where there is much light.”.
What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.Variant translation: I feel what makes the poet, a full heart, filled entirely with one emotion
The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.
With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.
It is a calamity that the use of experiment has severed nature from man, so that he is content to understand nature merely through what artificial instruments reveal and by so doing even restricts her achievements... Microscopes and telescopes, in actual fact, confuse man's innate clarity of mind.
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Sciences destroy themselves in two ways: by the breadth they reach and by the depth they plumb.
Mathematics, like dialectics, is an instrument of the inner higher sense, while in practice it is an art like rhetoric. For both of these, nothing has value but form; content is immaterial. Whether mathematics is adding up pennies or guineas, whether rhetoric is defending truth or falsehood, makes no difference to either.
I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.
No phenomenon can be explained in and of itself; only many comprehended together, methodically arranged, in the end yield something that could be regarded as theory. In Karl J. Fink
You often say to yourself in the course of your life that you ought to avoid having too much business, 'polypragmosyne' [incessant activity], and, more especially, that the older you get, the more you ought to avoid entering on new business. But it's all very well saying this, and giving yourself andothers good advice. The very fact of growing older means taking up a new business; all our circumstances change, and we must either stop doing anything at all or else willing and consciously take on the new role we have to play on life's stage.
Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.
The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.
It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.
Everything that liberates our mind without at the same time imparting self-control is pernicious.
What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance.
I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
To understand the phenomena of colour nothing is required but unbiased observation and a sound head, but these are scarcer than folks imagine.
The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.
Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
In general the sciences put some distance between themselves and life, and make their way back to it only by a roundabout path.
So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete character.
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
Quotes Goethe Faust
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Natural system — a contradiction in terms. Nature has no system; she has, she is life and its progress from an unknown center toward an unknowable goal. Scientific research is therefore endless, whether one proceed analytically into minutiae or follow the trail as a whole, in all its breadth and height.
And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking—and these are the sum of all wisdom.... Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out.
Dear friend, all theory is gray, And green the golden tree of life.
Goethe Quote Providence Moves
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrevocably for ourselves and for others.
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Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?
Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of life.
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life— and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
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A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.
Of freedom and of life he only is deserving Who every day must conquer them anew.
Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.