Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
Three may keep counsel, if two are away.
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
An unused life is an early death.
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
In art the best is good enough.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Precaution is better than cure.
A person hears only what they understand.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
