Quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wer nicht von dreitausend Jahren Sich weiss Rechenschaft zu geben, Bleib im Dunkeln, unerfahren, Mag von Tag zu Tage leben.

Naša tragedija ne leži u životu, nego u žudnji za savršenstvom ne?eg nesavršenog,

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.

Gdy zm?drze? chcesz, przez b??dze? brnij udr?k?, Gdy chcesz si? sta?, na w?asn? sta? si? r?k?!

What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling?… Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive—pleasure, love—can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift us out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

The most important thing to remember is that all fact is already theory.

Distance is like the future. A vast twilit entity lies before us, our perception is lost in it and becomes as blurred as our eyesight, and we yearn, ah, we yearn to surrender all of our Self and let ourselves be filled to the brim with a single, tremendous, magnificent emotion, but alas… when we hurry to the spot, when There becomes Here, everything is as it was before and we are left standing in our poverty and constraint, our souls longing for the balm that has eluded us.

you are certainly wrong when you classify suicide—and suicide is what we are talking about—as any sort of great achievement, since it can be defined only as a sign of weakness. For it is certainly easier to die than to stand up to a life of torment.

SYRENY na ska?ach Jaki? chmurek kr?g si? k??bi Mg?? ksi??yca wie?cz?c twarz? Rozkochanych poczt go??bi * Biel? wzrok ol?niewa nasz. Pafos wyspa ?le tu do nas To najtkliwsze z ptasich stad; Uroczysto?? ju? sko?czona, Jasny, pi?kny jest nasz ?wiat!

Estamos reunidos en la feliz hora, desempeñe cada quien su trabajo, cada uno cumpla con su obligación y una felicidad colectiva disolverá los pesares de cada quien al igual que la desgracia de todos consume las alegrías de cada uno.

Wir alle sind so borniert, daß wir immer glauben, recht zu haben.

In many points, both literary and moral, I could have wished devoutly that he had not written as he has done;

All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.

Wenn du eine weise Antwort verlangst, musst du vernünftig fragen.

Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe.

Oh you! The most powerful, beloved son of the Earth, shape it again! Slim, beautiful, take the orb in your hand and breathe new life. -Choir of Spirits

Das Wahre, mit dem Göttlichen identisch, läßt sich niemals von uns direkt erkennen, wir schauen es nur im Abglanz, im Beispiel, Symbol, in einzelnen und verwandten Erscheinungen; wir werden es gewahr als unbegreifliches Leben und können dem Wunsch nicht entsagen, es dennoch zu begreifen.

Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.