443 Quotations by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 21. A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishe ...

- 22. A useless life is an early death.

- 23. Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then ...

- 24. Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

- 25. All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them a ...

- 26. All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

- 27. All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summo ...

- 28. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

- 29. All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, ...

- 30. Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.

- 31. Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the f ...

- 32. Art is either plagiarism or revolution. Individuality of expression is the beginning and the end of ...

- 33. Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

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

- 35. Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows ...

- 36. Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

- 37. Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

- 38. Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.

- 39. Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us for ...

- 40. Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of whic ...

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