Quotes by : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.....

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

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

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

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....

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other,....

He'd have improved if you'd not givenHim a mere glimmer of the light in heaven;He calls it Reason, and....