Quotes from Goethe

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

A useless life is an early death.

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!

If a man thinks about his physical or moral state, he usually discovers that he is ill.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Modern poets mix too much water with their ink.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Wisdom is only found in trudi.

Who does not know another language, does not know his own.

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

Everyone hears only what he understands.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

Architecture is frozen music.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

A day of fortune is like a harvest-day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe.

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.