Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment.

Zur Farbenlehre, Materialien zur Geschichte der Farbenlehre (1810), Frankfurt am Main, 1991, Seite 666.

I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strength, happiness and misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

Getting along with women, Knocking around with men, Having more credit than money, Thus one goes through the world.

One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.

Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

Die Wissenschaft hilft uns vor allem, daß sie das Staunen, wozu wir von Natur berufen find.

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Die Wahrheit widerspricht unserer Natur, der Irrthum nicht, und zwar aus einem sehr einfachen Grunde: die Wahrheit fordert, daß wir uns für beschränkt erkennen follen, der Irrthum schmeichelt uns. wir seien auf ein- oder die andere Weise unbegränzt.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

If you would create something,
you must be something.

Wer Recht behalten will und hat nur eine Zunge,<br

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.