Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature, Her, Progress

Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Poetry, Everything

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Character, Human

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything, Almost, Sensible

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness, Great, Talent

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Music, Greatest

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Today, Tomorrow, Lose

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Happy, End

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Another, Dead, Belief

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Today, Tomorrow, Started

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Find, Sick, Start

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature, Everything, Before

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature, Children, Ask

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nation, Literature, Decline

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Purpose, Above, Serve

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing, Self, Lies

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Government, Difficult, Easy

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, Two, Lovers

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time, Good, Death

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Reality, Problem

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

Character, Nothing, Laugh

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Person, Happens, Sensible

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thoughtful, Stand, Public

Every step of life shows much caution is required.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Step, Shows

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Away, Knew, Run

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Poet

Born: August 28, 1749

Died: March 22, 1832

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