I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More Quotes From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every form correctly seen is beautiful Johann Wolfgang von Goethe form beautiful I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe triumph evil believe True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe poetry spring art With knowledge comes more doubt. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe doubt The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe empty faith lying The ground that a good man treads is hallowed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe reading evil men Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe add animal men There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe chance rights may Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe love-you lying thinking If you want to understand poetry, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe poetry want home The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe poetry asking doe If you have science and art, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe science art religion The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe thoughtful children thinking Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe thoughtful believe thinking The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe music doe art It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wisdom age world The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe equanimity happiness thinking I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe use doe negative Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe errors truth sleep A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe errors grace truth
