Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

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

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

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

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

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

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

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

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

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

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

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

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

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

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

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

Doubt grows with knowledge.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.