Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More Quotes From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe sick literature thinking The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fantasy strange thinking He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe language knows doe The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe kings home men Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe heart men memories We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe little-things sacrifice littles Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fear yesterday work Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe done circumstances inspirational Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe pain hope love The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe strong men art The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry, "Here we are." You expend effort and energy thinking hard. Then, after you have given up, they come sauntering in with their hands in their pockets. If the effort had not been made to open the door, however, who knows when they could have come. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe children hands thinking There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe patriotic science art Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe eye truth past You are, when all is done-just what you are. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe done identity The eternal female draws us onward. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe eternal draws female The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe inner-peace happiness men We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe passion weapons law In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe audacity talent artist Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe defects virtue passion A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe mirrors attitude men
