The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More Quotes From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe contemplation self action Character calls forth character. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe character Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe song beautiful men The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fate passion heart All is born of water; all is sustained by water. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe nature water travel Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe mind book people We are our own aptest deceiver. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe deceiver deceit Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fancy taste No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe views giving two No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tricks skills art The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe reading clever reality If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe great-work pleasure lost To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe crafts mean art What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe concern revolution people I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe opponents achievement enemy True happiness springs from moderation. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe true-happiness moderation spring The smallest hair throws its shadow. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe trifles shadow hair Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe hate hatred war Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe distrust trust errors Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe nature important book
