Quotes from Goethe

Let us plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident ; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will - it is only action that can make a man.

What glitters, lives but for the moment; what has real worth, survives for all posterity.

Ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft. -Goethe-

Der Mensch muss bei dem Glauben verharren, dass das Unbegreifliche befreidlich sei; er würde sonst nicht forschen.

Believe me, dearest, what men call intelligent Often is pedantry and self-conceit.

To grant me a vision of Nature's forces that bind the world, all its seeds and sources and innermost life... all this I shall see... and stop peddling in words that mean nothing to me." (Daß ich erkenne was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält... Schau alle Wirkenskraft und Samen... und tu nicht mehr in Worten kramen.)

Du reste je déteste tout ce qui ne fait que m'instruire, sans augmenter mon activité ou l'animer directement.

MÉPHISTOPHÉLÈS. Le sang est un suc tout particulier.

M? întorc în mine însumi ?i g?sesc o lume!

oamenii ferici?i sunt aceia care tr?iesc asemenea copiilor, î?i duc p?pu?ile în bra?e, le îmbrac? ?i le dezbrac?, dau târcoale, cu mare respect, cutiei în care mama a încuiat zaharul, iar când, în sfâr?it, au c?p?tat buc??ica de zah?r, o m?nânc? cu poft? ?i strig?: "Mai d?-mi!"...Fericite fiin?e!

De ce oare fluviul geniului izbucne?te atât de rar ?i atât de rar se revars? în valuri puternice ?i v? cutremur? sufletul uimit?

Iznad naroda je ljudskost.

Nations could not return to their settled an independent life again without noticing that they had unconsciously adopted, and come to feel here and there previously unrecognized spiritual and intellectual needs.

Natura nu mai g?se?te nicio ie?ire din labirintul for?elor încâlcite ?i contradictorii, ?i atunci omul trebuie s? moar?.

Când e lipsim nou? în?ine, totul ne lipse?te.

Yo amo a aquel que desea lo imposible.

I go back into myself and find a whole world!

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

Las sociedades más agradables son aquellas en que reina un sereno respeto mutuo entre sus miembros

I am the spirit of perpetual negation. (Mephistopheles)

Yet here poor fool for all my lore, I stand no wiser than before

Our intention is a foretelling of what we are going to do in any circumstances, but these 'circumstances' affect us in their own way. The 'what' of things lies in us, the 'how' rarely depends on us, and we are not allowed to ask 'why'. We are therefore justly advised to say 'because.

What's left undone today, tomorrow will not do." Faust

est-ce une illusion que d'être heureux?