J W Goethe Quotes & Sayings

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Goethe's Faust risks all if he should cry to the moment, the 'augenblick', "Verweile doch!" "Last forever!" Who hasn't prayed that prayer? But the 'augenblick' isn't going to 'verweile'. You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying; it is a canvas, nevertheless. — Annie Dillard

If we want to resist the powers that threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom, we must be clear what is at stake," he said. "Without such freedom there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Faraday, no Pasteur, no Lister." Freedom was a foundation for creativity. — Walter Isaacson

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is but one poetry,
true poetry. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

O my Charlotte, the sacred, tender remembrance! Gracious Heaven! restore to me the happy moment of our first acquaintance.
I smile at the suggestions of my heart, and obey its dictates.
their hearts do not beat in unison
I turned my face away. She should not act thus. She ought not to excite my imagination with such displays of heavenly innocence and happiness, nor awaken my heart from its slumbers, in which it dreams of the worthlessness of life! And why not? Because she knows how much I love her.
I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.
My dear friend, my energies are all prostrated: she can do with me what she pleases. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Colors are light's suffering and joy — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To have your every wish, desire, Wake, regard the glorious light! What holds you bound is a mild power, Sleep's a shell, break out of it! Up, no lagging, boldly does it; Though the crowd doubts and delays, All's possible to a brave spirit 4830 Who sees, and seeing's quick to seize. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

They make life unnecessarily difficult for themselves by looking for deep thoughts and ideas everywhere and putting them into everything. just have the courage to
give yourself up to first impressions..don't think all the time that
everything must be pointless if it lacks an abstract thought or idea — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Our foibles are really what make us lovable. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nature has neither core nor skin: she's both at once outside and in. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Everything is hard before it is easy. — J.W. Von Goethe?

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work — Idries Shah

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere." — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The trouble is small, the fun is great. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Man needs but little earth for enjoyment, and still less for his final
repose. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One errs as long as one strives. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe