Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.

Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized.

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

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

Everything that liberates our mind without at the same time imparting self-control is pernicious.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

Es gibt Fälle, ... wo jeder Trost niederträchtig und Verzweiflung Pflicht ist.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

The deed is everything, the glory nothing.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Blood is a juice of rarest quality.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

Of old the sacred Koran did they cite,
They named the verse and chapter ever blest,
And each good Mussulman, as was but right,
Reverenced, and felt his conscience was at rest.
The modern Dervish nothing better knows,
But prates of old and new with endless zest;
Each day our most admired disorder grows.
O sacred Koran! O eternal rest!