In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A vi’let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass’d by that way – Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great passions are incurable diseases.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Originality provokes originality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What right those who govern have to govern they don’t question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn’t concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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