Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Quotes

• “Dem Reichen übergibt der Baumeister mit dem Schlüssel des Palastes alle Bequemlichkeit und Behäbigkeit, ohne irgend etwa...”
• “Germanic philosophical idealism is also reflected in the work of Johann Goethe, whom Hayek often read as a young man. [....”
• “On Muhammad, in Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Noten und Abhandlungen zum West-östlichen Diwan (1958), WA I, 7, 32; translator ...”
• “I have been reading a translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister. Is it good? To me it seems perhaps the very worst book I ...”
• “Nothing is great but truth, and the smallest truth is great. The other day I had a thought, which I put like this: Even ...”
• “Beloved, don't fret that you gave yourself so quickly!Believe me, I don't think badly or wrongly of you.The arrows of Lo...”
• “I am more and more convinced that poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere and at all ...”
• “I feel I'm happily inspired now on Classical soil:The Past and Present speak louder, more charmingly.Here, as advised, I...”
• “Gut! Ein Mittel, ohne GeldUnd Arzt und Zauberei zu haben:Begib dich gleich hinaus aufs Feld,Fang an zu hacken und zu gra...”
• “Good! A method can be used without physicians, gold, or magic,Go out into the open fieldand start to dig and cultivate;k...”
• “[I]f I have been delivered from darkness into any measure of light, if I know aught of myself and my duties and destinat...”
• “Von andern Seiten her vernahm ich ähnliche Klänge, nirgends wollte man zugeben, daß Wissenschaft und Poesie vereinbar se...”
• “Nicht vor Irrthum zu bewahren, ist die Pflicht des Menschen erziehers; sondern den Irrenden zu leiten, ja ihn seinen Irr...”
• “No matter how far our spiritual culture may continue to progress, no matter how much the natural sciences may grow, beco...”
• “In the middle of the war there was Heine, there was Goethe, there was Schiller. I did posters for the German club, in th...”
• “Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematici...”
• “Of old the sacred Koran did they cite,They named the verse and chapter ever blest,And each good Mussulman, as was but ri...”
• “Not to keep from error, is the duty of the educator of men, but to guide the erring one, even to let him swill his error...”
• “I'm gazing at church and palace, ruin and column,Like a serious man making sensible use of a journey,But soon it will ha...”
• “Of Goethe it may be said that he created to a large extent the language and style of that which is best in the modern li...”
• “Ich bedauere die Menschen, welche von der Vergänglichkeit der Dinge viel Wesens machen und sich in Betrachtung irdischer...”
• “Letter, writing to Wilhelm Humboldt. Quoted in Singhal, D P India and World Civilization p. 244. Rupa and Co Calcutta 19...”
• “Attributed to Goethe by popular British novelist Marie Corelli in her essay "The Spirit of Work" as published in The Que...”
• “Attributed to Goethe by William Hutchinson Murray, in his book The Scottish Himalayan Expedition (1951), this has been s...”
• “All Nine often used to come to me, I mean the Muses:But I ignored them: my girl was in my arms.Now I've left my sweethea...”
• “Attributed to Goethe by German novelist Thomas Mann in his novel The Beloved Returns. The line was Mann's invention, tho...”
• “He admired nature's moving order and conceived of form as a pattern of relationships within an organized whole-a concept...”
• “I have often felt a bitter sorrow at the thought of the German people, which is so estimable in the individual and so wr...”
• “I'm sorry for people who make a great to-do about the transitory nature of things and get lost in meditations of earthly...”
• “William James, 'Clifford's "Lectures and Essays"' (1879) in Collected Essays and Reviews (1920) pp. 138-139. Review of L...”
• “Die Wahrheit widerspricht unserer Natur, der Irrthum nicht, und zwar aus einem sehr einfachen Grunde: die Wahrheit forde...”
• “Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere h...”
• “Nun aber wird der einsichtige Leser, welcher fähig ist, zwischen diese Zeilen hineinzulesen, was nicht geschrieben steht...”
• “And now the sagacious reader, who is capable of reading into these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nev...”
• “Variant translation: "The man who science has and art, He also has religion. But he who is devoid of both, He surely nee...”
• “Letter to Charlotte von Stein (1787) in Goethe's World View: Presented in His Reflections and Maxims (1963), Edited with...”
• “Nowhere would anyone grant that science and poetry can be united. They forgot that science arose from poetry, and failed...”
• “Die Welt ist so leer, wenn man nur Berge, Flüsse und Städte darin denkt, aber hie und da jemand zu wissen, der mit uns ü...”
• “The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or ...”
• “Goethe wondered at what point our instruments might be creating what we think we see out there in the world. ...his ques...”
• “Und doch sehr oft, wenn wir uns von dem Beabsichtigten für ewig getrennt sehen, haben wir schon auf unserm Wege irgend e...”
• “Die Kunst an und für sich selbst ist edel; deßhalb fürchtet sich der Künstler nicht vor dem Gemeinen. Ja indem er es auf...”
• “By way of a personal compromise, he became an adept of the "noble and pure" wisdom of the Parsees as a means of escaping...”
• “Much there is I can stand. Most things not easy to sufferI bear with quiet resolve, just as a God commands it.Only a few...”
• “All Goethe's work, whether poetry or prose, his plays, his novels, his letters, his conversations, are richly bestrewn w...”
• “The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appea...”
• “All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would...”
• “Variant translation: Lots of things I can stomach. Most of what irks me I take in my stride, as a god might command me. ...”
• “The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity affecting the ...”
• “Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason; truth demands that we should recognize...”