Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.

آدم باید در طول زندگی هر روز
کمی موسیقی گوش کند، کمی شعر بخواند و روزی یک تصویر زیبا ببیند
تا علایق دنیوی نتوانند حس زیبایی شناسی را خداوند در روح او قرار داده است، نابود کند

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

When we treat man as he is we make him worse than he is.
When we treat him as if he already was what he potentially could be
We make him what he should be.

Rest not
Life is sweeping by
go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime,
leave behind to conquer time.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else

The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Everything transitory is but an image.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few priveledged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and they've lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

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.