Goethe, Johann Von
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
- Goethe, Johann Von
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
- Goethe, Johann Von
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
- Goethe, Johann Von
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
- Goethe, Johann Von
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
- Goethe, Johann Von
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
- Goethe, Johann Von
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
- Goethe, Johann Von
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
- Goethe, Johann Von
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
- Goethe, Johann Von
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
- Goethe, Johann Von
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.
- Goethe, Johann Von
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
- Goethe, Johann Von
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
- Goethe, Johann Von
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
- Goethe, Johann Von
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
- Goethe, Johann Von
It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
- Goethe, Johann Von
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
- Goethe, Johann Von
On every mountain height is rest.
- Goethe, Johann Von
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
- Goethe, Johann Von
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
- Goethe, Johann Von
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
- Goethe, Johann Von
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
- Goethe, Johann Von
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
- Goethe, Johann Von
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
- Goethe, Johann Von
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it. Others do just the same with their time.
- Goethe, Johann Von
