Author Name: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

In art the best is good enough.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

I call architecture frozen music.

In art the best is good enough.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

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.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

In art the best is good enough.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

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.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Love does not dominate it cultivates.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

A useless life is an early death.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

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.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

I call architecture frozen music.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

An unused life is an early death.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

On all the peaks lies peace.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.