Quotes by : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

15"General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff....

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful....

Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day

In this world one is seldom reduced to make a selection between two alternatives. There are as many varieties....

Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of....