Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

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

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

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

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.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

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

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

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

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

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

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.

Live dangerously and you live right.

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

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

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

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.