He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
-
-
I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Doubt can only be removed by action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Everything transitory is but an image.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE