The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More Quotes From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe coreskins Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe painmaymen If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe criticizeifspeople There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe insignificant-thingsliteratureviews Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe meritlittlesmen The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lighteyedark Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe storiesmindthinking To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character; and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe strongcharactermean Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe eveningeach-daydone The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe foolmindmorning Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe daily-lifelifebook If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe beliefdoubtbelieve Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe playheartmen The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe visionspiritart Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe birthdaymeaningfulfunny When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe distanceboystwo What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe passionpoetryheart Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe knowingknowledgethinking Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe destinydreamorder Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe libertypoliticalpromise
