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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Total quotes: 34
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Living Scripture: Reproducible Lectionary-Based Reflections on Sunday Scriptures: Year C(Cycle C)
Tagged: Love, Passion, inspiration, influence
“Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, A quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tagged: believing, Power, Action, Do Great Things
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, via Wikiquote
Tagged: Knowledge, Wisdom, Feelings, learning how to be smarter vs. learning how to love, Love
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy:(A Modern Translation and the Original Version)
Tagged: Self-Trust, Believe In Yourself, believing, Trust
“What's left undone today, is still not done tomorrow;
to every day there is a use and purpose;
let Resoluteness promptly seize
the forelock of the Possible,
and then, reluctant to let go again,
she's forced to carry on and be productive.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust I
Tagged: Productivity, Beginning, Doing, purpose in life, Meaning Of Life, Living, Life, Dreams, reaching, poem, Inspirational, Motivational
“Where there’s much light,
there’s strong shadow.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Götz von Berlichingen
Tagged: Light, shadow, Darkness
“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotz Von Berlichingen: A Play
Tagged: Enlightenment, Darkness, Light, Sufferings, Life, Overcoming, opposing forces
“You only see what you know.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, A quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tagged: seeing, believing, Knowledge
“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe's Opinions On the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art
Tagged: Correction, Encouragement
“Our passions are, in truth, like the phoenix. When the old one burns away, the new one rises out of its ashes at once.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: Passion, Phoenix, Metaphor, Desire
“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust Part 1 & 2
Tagged: impossible, Determination, perseverance
“Poetry, dreams, desire, everything leads me to you.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, via Amazon
Tagged: Poetry, Dreams, Desire, romance, Cute Things To Say To Her
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, via Amazon
Tagged: Appreciation, Deep Insights
“God knows I often retire to my bed wishing (at times even hoping) that I might never wake up; and in the morning I open my eyes, see the sun once again, and am miserable.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Tagged: Living With Depression, Sadness, Darkness, Mental Health, Miserable
“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Goethe Society of North America
Tagged: Bounce Back, Fate, Blossoming, Life, Resilience, Coming Back From Failure
“Everything is hard before it is easy.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Inspirational Success Quotes - Colleen Kettenhofen Motivational Speaker
Tagged: Bounce Back, Life, Life Is Tough, Life Isn't Easy, Motivational
“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, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: Life
“Is not ill-humour in fact our own inner displeasure at our own unworthiness, a feeling of discontent with ourselves, which is always related to envy, which in turn is stirred up by foolish vanity? We see people who are happy and whose happiness is not of our making, and we cannot stand it.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: Life
“Misunderstandings and lethargy perhaps lead to more complications in the affairs of the world than trickery and wickedness. At least, the two latter are surely more common.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: Life
“Tell me whom you consort with and I will tell you who you are; if I know how you spend your time, then I know what might become of you.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: Life
“To communicate is natural; to accept what is communicated is an acquired art.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: Life
“Absolute activity, of whatever kind, ultimately leads to bankruptcy.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: Life
“If monkeys could reach the point of being bored, they could turn into human beings.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: Life
“There is no situation which cannot be ennobled by work or else by endurance.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: Life
“Certain books are apparently written not so that we may learn from them but to demonstrate the fact that the author knew something.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: Life, Writing
“The greatest respect an author can have for his public is never to produce what is expected but what he himself considers right and useful for whatever stage of intellectual development have been reached by himself and others.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: Life, Writing
“Art deals with what is hard to bear and with what is good.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: Life, Writing
“Behavior is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: Life
“Advance years bring greater trials.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: Life
“Surely the world is quite full enough of riddles for us not to need to turn the simplest phenomena into riddles too?”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Tagged: Life
“As a creation of light, the eye can do everything that light itself can do. Everything visible is passed on to the eye through light, the eye delivers it to the whole person. The ear is mute, the mouth is deaf; but the eye hears and speaks. From the outside, the world is reflected in the eye; from the inside, man. The totality of the inside and the outside is completed by the eye. ”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Symmetry As a Developmental Principle in Nature and Art
Tagged: Eyes, Human Eyes, Light
“The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it. ”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Literature and Mass Culture
Tagged: Advice, Art, Artist, Inner Voice, Liberal Arts
“Talking a lot of nonsense, or even writing it, will kill neither body nor soul, everything will remain unchanged.But nonsense, placed before the eyesHas a magical right:Because it fetters the sensesThe mind remains a vassal.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Literature and Mass Culture
Tagged: Lowbrow, Nonsense, Television, Why Books Are Better Than Movies
“We have newspapers for all hours of the day. A clever head could still add a few more. This way everything, what everybody does, wants, writes, even what he plans, is publicly exposed. One can only enjoy oneself, or suffer, for the entertainment of others, and in the greatest rush, this is communicated from house to house, from town to town, from empire to empire, and at last from continent to continent.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Literature and Mass Culture
Tagged: Media Annihilation, Media Everywhere!, Newspapers
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