Quotes by : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.....

The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain....

A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our....

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before....

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts.