Quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Em vão o homem ajuizado e razoável contemplará o estado do infeliz, em vão lhe dará seus conselhos! Da mesma forma que um homem saudável, parado junto ao leito do enfermo, jamais poderá transmitir-lhe a parte mais insignificante de suas energias.

Esa joya ha rodado por tantas manos que el baño de oro está bastante desgastado.

I could often tear my heart open and beat my poor head on seeing how little people can mean to each other. If I do not offer love and joy, happiness and warmth, ah! the other will not bring them to me either; nor will my heart, overflowing with rapture, move him at all if he is cold and listless.

Astfel se deschide mugurul iubirii în întreaga sa frumuse?e ?i modestie. Mi se p?rea c? o prim?var? întreag? ?i-ar fi scuturat deodat? florile peste mine.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be." ? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children don't know why they want what they want, teachers and judges are unanimous. But that adults, just like children, tumble about in the world without knowing where they come from and where they're going – that they act in accordance with their avowed aims as little as children do – that they can be ruled by cookies and cakes and lashes just as easily as children – this no one wants to believe, though it seems to me so palpably true.

Sentimos tantas vezes que nos faltam algumas coisas, e por vezes nos parece que o que nos falta um outro possui. ... E assim imaginamos nós mesmos as perfeições que criam o nosso suplício.

Lo que hoy no ocurra, no estará hecho mañana y no hay que dejar pasar ni un solo día.

Ona adamak isterim kendimi, ?ayet saç?na örerse beni, Bir karar verebilirse, Gönlünde bana yer verece?ine.

True love is that which remains for ever the same whether all that it asks is granted or all refused.

It is the greatest and most genuine of pleasures to observe a great mind in sympathy with our own.

Verweile doch! Du bist so Schön!

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.

Le gaillard qui se perd en spéculation Est comme un animal qui tourne sur la lande En cercles infinis, poussé par le démon, Quand partout alentour croît la verte provende.

Habe nun, ach! Philosophie, Juristerei und Medizin, Und leider auch Theologie Durchaus studiert, mit heißem Bemühn. Da steh ich nun, ich armer Tor! Und bin so klug als wie zuvor;

Nema sunca bez svetlosti, ni ?oveka bez ljubavi.

You must, in studying Nature, always consider both each single thing and the whole: nothing is inside and nothing is outside, for what is within is without. Make haste, then, to grasp this holy mystery which is public knowledge. Rejoice in the true illusion, in the serious game: no living thing is a unity, it is always manifold.

Ljubav odoleva vremenu koje sve otima.

Albert fell upon her neck, and kissed her, and exclaimed, "We are so, and we shall be so!" Even Albert, generally so tranquil, had quite lost his composure; and I was excited beyond expression.

?nsan asl?nda karma??k bir varl?k de?il. Ço?unlu?u zaman?n büyük bir bölümünü ya?amak için kullan?yor, geriye kalan? sie, özgür olduklar? küçük zaman diliminden öyle korkuyor ki, ondan kurtulman?n her türlü yolunu deniyor. ??te insan?n de?i?mez yazg?s?!

Every one has his peculiarities and cannot get rid of them; and yet many a one is destroyed by his peculiarities, and those too of the most innocent kind.

un cerebro que puede pensar bien, creará con el tiempo un pensador.

Mnoga se srca gube u opštem, samo se najplemenitije posve?uje jednome.