Tag: 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

Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe