Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

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

Von andern Seiten her vernahm ich ähnliche Klänge, nirgends wollte man zugeben, daß Wissenschaft und Poesie vereinbar seien. Man vergaß, daß Wissenschaft sich aus Poesie entwickelt habe, man bedachte nicht, daß, nach einem Umschwung von Zeiten, beide sich wieder freundlich, zu beiderseitigem Vorteil, auf höherer Stelle, gar wohl wieder begegnen könnten.

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

Leap and the net will appear.

He alone is great and happy who fills his own station of independence, and has neither to command nor to obey.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Knowst thou the land where the lemon trees bloom,
Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom,
Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows,
And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose?

Amerika, du hast es besser—als unser Kontinent, der alte.

Among all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt life's dream most beautifully.

He is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as Divine Law, and not as a book of a human being made for education or entertainment.

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht,<br