One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEAll that is transitory is but a metaphor.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEverything transitory is but an image.
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 GOETHEEvery day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEToo many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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 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 GOETHERemember to live.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDoubt can only be removed by action.
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 GOETHEThe intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBy seeking and blundering we learn.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIn the colorful reflection we have what is life.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE