Goethe Quotes

And here poor fool with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.

There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Modern poets mix too much water with their ink.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.

He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.

I call architecture 'petrified music'.

Every day look at a beautiful picture read a beautiful poem listen to some beautiful music and if possible say some reasonable thing.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Architecture is frozen music.

If a man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him and that all merely exists for his sake.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten but they may start a winning game.

A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.

Cursed Mammon be when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!