Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 43

• True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Law, Manifestation

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• So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spring, Book, Years

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• Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Writing, Light

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.116

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• It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Triumph, Genius, Common

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• If you want to understand poetry,
  You have to go to its origin,
  If you want to understand the poet,
  You have to go to the Poet's home.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Home, Poetry, Want

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• Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Believe, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Commitment, Matter, Succeed

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• Tell me, how do you cope so calmly
  With crazy youth's arrogant way?
  Indeed, youth would be insufferable,
  Had I myself not also been insufferable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Crazy, Would Be, Arrogant

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• It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Would Be, Understood

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2004). “The Man of Fifty”, Hesperus Press

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• The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Work Out, World, Lord

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3511, Delphi Classics

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• Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Appreciation, Eye, Rays

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• Dauer in Wechsel.
  Duration in change.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Duration

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• We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Poor, Bachelors, Hard

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• I laugh at my heart, and do its will

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Laughing, My Heart

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• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Situations In Life, Stories, Scene

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.22, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Time, Children

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• Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Freedom, Mean, Doe

  "Iphigenia auf Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, April 6, 1779.

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• Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Glasses, Light

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• A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Purpose, Impart

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• Gray is the color of all theory

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Color, Theory, Gray

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ill Will, Envy, World

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.80, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Creation, Divine

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• Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Devil, Culture, World

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1875). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.258

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• A man's errors are what make him amiable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Errors, Amiable

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• I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  May, Chance, Reputation

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 667-68, Iphigenia auf Tauris, II. 1. 140, 1922.

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