Quotes from Johann von Goethe

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.

The only means to gain one's ends with people are force and cunning. Love also, they say; but that is to wait for sunshine, and life needs every moment.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

Man errs as long as he struggles.

Man must strive, and in striving, he must err.

Faith is hidden household capital.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so with everything else.

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Let us live, while we are alive!

Life's objective is life itself.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Time itself is an element.

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.