Tag: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There’s nothing clever that hasn’t been thought of before — you’ve just got to try to think it all over again.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I’m sorry for people who make a great to-do about the transitory nature of things and get lost in meditations of earthly nothingness. Surely we are here precisely so as to turn what passes into something that endures; but this is possible only if you can appreciate both.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing should be treasured more highly than the value of the day.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world’s torrent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one’s hands full just to be able to remove their trash.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe