When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More Quotes From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe novelty music doe To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe music blow moving This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe nature rain spring The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe demon safety passion What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe freedom-of-the-press printing liberty The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe pride rose Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe silence exercise men Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fancy produce poet So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spring book years Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe light writing character Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe nature mean art Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe degrees nature art Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe moral literature stories Association with women is the basis of good manners. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe good-man women association It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe suffering law world National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe age doe mean If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe accomplish demand ifs If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe succeed matter commitment Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe becoming awareness science Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe detours distance science
