Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

When you see some evil you proceed to immediate action, you make an immediate attack to cure the symptom.

The person engaged in action is always unconscionable; no one except the contemplative has a conscience.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

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

Nothing is more frightful than to see ignorance in action.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

While Man's desires and aspirations stir, He cannot choose but err.

All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

God help us — for art is long, and life so short.

Reden ist uns ein Bedürfnis, Zuhören ist eine Kunst.

Blood is a juice of rarest quality.