Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBeauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhen scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe 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 GOETHEIf you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThings which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDo not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEAll that is transitory is but a metaphor.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDaring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE