Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELove is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETwo souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENight is the other half of life, and the better half.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEMagic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEKnow thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENothing is more dangerous than solitude.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI laugh at my heart, and do its will.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBy seeking and blundering we learn.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETo think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE