2,348 Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.

He had occasion to notice that the enactment and completion of a well-conceived idea is often subject to so many obstacles and so many coincidences that it often threatens to disappear entirely. Just as it seems to vanish for good, in the middle of so much confusion, success seems possible once more, when time, the best ally of an indefatigable perseverance, offers her helping hand.

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust,Die eine will sich von der andern trennen;

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.