Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More Quotes From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe simple easy desire A world without love would be no world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe without-love would-be world Gray is the color of all theory Johann Wolfgang von Goethe gray color theory Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe persuasion majority believe In comradeship is danger countered best. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe friends danger friendship Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe inward tests may The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fate law hands A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe nobility noble soul Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe moments opportunity men We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe philosophy history art The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe woe atheism world This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe struggle class giving The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe world The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth Johann Wolfgang von Goethe forever water men The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blind depth art America, you have it better than our continent, the old one. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe continents america An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lessons actors acting Few rash of any modern nation have a proper sense of an aesthetical whole; they praise and blame by parts; they are charmed by passages. And who has greater reason to rejoice in this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piecemeal matter? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe actors acting matter Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe rays eye appreciation Architecture is frozen music. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe frozen dies architecture
