“One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the "No."”
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Famous Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
“Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret
“I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.”
“Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.”
“The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.”
Source: Faust
“Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.”
“One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.”
Source: Faust
“Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.”
Source: Early and miscellaneous letters
Source: Faust
“All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.”
Source: Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims of Goethe
Source: The Poems of Goethe
“The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.”
Source: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.”
“In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.”
“The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.”
“Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.”