Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Being full of mischief, they love to listen;they gladly obey, for they like to betray you,pretending to be sent from Heaven,and lisping like angels, while they lie.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

For in music there is no material to be deducted.

Whilst I could not think of any man whose spirit was, or needed to be, more enlarged than the spirit of a genuine merchant. What a thing it is to see the order which prevails throughout his business! By means of this he can at any time survey the general whole, without needing to perplex himself in the details. What advantages does he derive from the system of book-keeping by double entry? It is among the finest inventions of the human mind; every prudent master of a house should introduce it into his economy.

If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.

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

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free

Divide and rule, the politician cries;Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

If you would create something,you must be something.