Best 17 quotes of Goethe on MyQuotes

Being full of mischief, they love to listen; they gladly obey, for they like to betray you, pretending to be sent from Heaven, and lisping like angels, while they lie.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

Eğer gönüller gerçekten aydınlıksa, güneş ışığına gerek kalmaz.Başkalarının esirgediği şeyi biz kendi kalbimizde buluyoruz..

Ich mögte beten wie Moses im Koran: Herr mache mir Raum in meiner engen Brust.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.

Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments.

Molto spesso sentiamo che ci manca qualcosa e proprio ciò che ci manca ci sembra di ritrovarlo in un altro, al quale attribuiamo non solo tutto quello che abbiamo, ma anche una certa ideale felicità. E cosi, questo essere beato, che noi stessi abbiamo creato, è completo e perfetto. Se noi invece, pur con le nostre debolezze e le nostre miserie, pensiamo solo a continuare il nostro lavoro, ci accogiamo subito che con il nostro passo tardo e lento arriviamo più lontano degli altri con tutti i loro remi e il loro vento in poppa - e allora, se restiamo alla pari con gli altri o addirittura passiamo loro davanti, finiamo con l'avere per noi un certo rispetto.

Tell me with whom you consort and I will tell you who you are; if I know how you spend your time, then I know what might become of you.

The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

These children, who are our equals, whom we ought to consider as our models, we treat them as though they were our subjects. They are allowed no will of their own. And have we, then, none ourselves? Whence comes our exclusive right? Is it because we are older and more experienced? Great God! from the height of thy heaven thou beholdest great children and little children, and no others; and thy Son has long since declared which afford thee greatest pleasure. But they believe in him, and hear him not,—that, too, is an old story; and they train their children after their own image, etc.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Wenn die Blattläuse auf den Rosenzweigen sitzen und sich hübsch dick und grün gesogen haben, dann kommen die Ameisen und saugen ihnen den filtrierten Saft aus den Leibern. Und so geht's weiter, und wir haben's so weit gebracht, daß oben immer an einem Tage mehr verzehrt wird, als unten in einem beigebracht werden kann.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

What you inherit from your father must first be earned before it's yours.

When he comes to the door he always looks mocking and half-way angry. You can see he has sympathy for nothing. It's written on his forehead that he can love no one.

Whilst I could not think of any man whose spirit was, or needed to be, more enlarged than the spirit of a genuine merchant. What a thing it is to see the order which prevails throughout his business! By means of this he can at any time survey the general whole, without needing to perplex himself in the details. What advantages does he derive from the system of book-keeping by double entry? It is among the finest inventions of the human mind; every prudent master of a house should introduce it into his economy.