586 ordspråk av Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
|
Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
|
Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
|
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality
|
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
|
Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
|
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
|
Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
|
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
|
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
|
Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own
|
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing
|
So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
|
Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.
|
Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong- sometimes it's letting go.
|