Few people have the imagination for reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEFew people have the imagination for reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEverything transitory is but an image.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI wait for the morning of my tears.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBy seeking and blundering we learn.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEMisunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIn happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEYou can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe 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 GOETHEI laugh at my heart, and do its will.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELife belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEInstruction does much, but encouragement everything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHow often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE