Category: Quote of the Day

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Well, I like yellow and blue a lot.  Child or barbarian?  Either suits me.

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He alone is great and happy who fills his own station of independence, and has neither to command nor to obey.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We 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 Goethe

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything that liberates our mind without at the same time imparting self-control is pernicious.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous… Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe