Quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.

The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day.

Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.

Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.

We have time enough if we but use it aright

If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.

Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day

What you feed in yourself that grows.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.