Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

age


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age merely shows what children we remain.

age


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

age


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

alone


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.

alone


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

alone


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

alone


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I call architecture frozen music.

architecture


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

art


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

art


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In art the best is good enough.

art


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

art


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

art


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

art


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

beauty


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

beauty


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

beauty


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

best


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

best


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In art the best is good enough.

best


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

best


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

business


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

change


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

change


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A useless life is an early death.

death


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.

death


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An unused life is an early death.

death


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

dreams


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

famous


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.

fear


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

god


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

god


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

god


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

god


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

god


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.

good


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.

good


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

good


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

good


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In art the best is good enough.

good


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

government


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

government


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

government


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

great


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

great


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

great


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

great


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

great


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

happiness


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

happiness


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