Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Love can do much, but duty more.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
All things are only transitory.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
On all the peaks lies peace.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
Superstition is the poetry of life.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
