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 Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly; telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe holy should heart Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dictionary conversation men As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe judging dwelling perfect Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe creativity energy creative I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe decision wish mean Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe decision hands thinking No, no! The devil is an egotist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe devil sake All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe doctrine deny seems Duty is the demand of the hour. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe hours demand duty But what is your duty? What the day demands. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe demand dies duty It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe degrees men thinking How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe errors use sea It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe errors depth doe Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe coins saving faith Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe archer arrows pain Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe healthy men science A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe family names men To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe love-each-other couple young With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe oratory littles art Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe delivery oratory succeed
