Quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

PATER SERAPHICUS. Higher rise, still higher, growing Stronger imperceptibly, Near the Divine Presence gaining A more perfect purity! What is it the spirit thrives on, What fills the ethereal space? Endless love whose revelation Blitheness brings, eternal bliss.

En resumidas cuentas, ¡tus amigos te honran! Eres a menudo causa de su alegría y a tu corazón le parece como si no pudiera estar sin ellos; pero... ¿si te fueras, si te apartaras de este círculo? ¿Sentirían... cuánto tiempo sentirían el vacío que tu pérdida arranca en su destino? ¿Cuánto tiempo?

El diablo es viejo; envejeced, pues, para comprenderlo.

I say to you that scholarly fellows [1830] Are like the cattle on an arid heath: Some evil spirit leads them round in circles, While sweet green meadows lie beneath.

El que por complacer a los demás, contra su gusto y sin necesidad, se fatiga corriendo tras la fortuna, los honores u otra cosa cualquiera, es siempre un loco.

In the end, by all the Devils, yes! Partisan hatred's still the best,

When your thirtieth year is over, A man's as good as dead.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it. What a thing our human destiny is!

Why are you here, Katrina dear, In daylight clear, At your lover's door? [3685] No, no! When, It will let in, A maid, and then, Let out a maid no more!

And, though God may still forgive, Be damned on earth while you live!

The Lord: Whilst still man strives, still must he stray

Un ángel! ¡Bah! Todos dicen lo mismo de la que aman, ¿no es verdad? Y, sin embargo, yo no podré decirte cuán perfecta es y por qué es perfecta; en resumen, ha esclavizado todo mi ser.

Spirit: In floods of being, in action's storm, Up and down I wave, To and fro I flee, Birth and the grave, An infinite sea, A changeful weaving, An ardent living; The ringing loom of Time is my care, And I weave God's living garment there

Now and then the fable of the horse recurs to me. Weary of liberty, he suffered himself to be saddled and bridled, and was ridden to death for his pains.

One should, each day, try to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if possible, speak a few reasonable words

Onu bu kadar s?k görmemeye kim bilir kaç kez karar verdim. Katlanabilir miyim hiç buna? Her yeni gün beni ba?tan ç?kar?yor, önceki gün ona gitmeyece?ime ne kadar yemin etsem bo?una; çünkü gün gelip çat?nca, yine kar?? konulmaz bir neden buluyorum ve bir bak?yorum ki yan?nday?m.

The deed is everything, the glory nothing.

Wilhelm, sind das Phantomen, wenn es uns wohl wird?

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

Wagner: Yet elocution makes the orator; I'm far behind, I feel it more and more. Faust: Seek thou an honest retribution! Be thou no motley, jingling fool! It needs but little elocution To speak good sense by reason's rule. It ye've a message to deliver, Need ye for words be hunting ever?

AUTHOR: Who writes anything good these days, Or reads with moderate intelligence! And what the dear young folk all praise, [4090] I've never seen such stupid nonsense.

Quando faltamos a nós mesmos, tudo nos falta.

MEPHISTOPHELES: Note that madam! That's Lilith. FAUST: Who? MEPHISTOPHELES: First wife to Adam. Pay attention to her lovely hair, [4120] The only adornment she need wear. When she traps a young man in her snare, She won't soon let him from her care.

Where sense fails it's only necessary [1995] To supply a word, and change the tense.