2,348 Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am the spirit that negates.And rightly so, for all that comes to beDeserves to perish wretchedly;'Twere better nothing would begin.Thus everything that that your terms, sin,Destruction, evil represent—That is my proper element.

To wisdom’s final fruit, profoundly true:Of freedom and of life he only is deservingWho every day must conquer them anew.Thus here, by danger girt, the active dayOf childhood, manhood, age will pass away.

To wisdom’s final fruit, profoundly true:Of freedom and of life he only is deservingWho every cay must conquer them anew.Thus here, by danger girt, the active dayOf childhood, manhood, age will pass away.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

La vita è troppo breve per bere vini mediocri

We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.

Фауст:- Ты кто?Мефистофель:- Часть силы той, что без числаТворит добро, всему желая зла.("Фауст", И. Гёте)

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

Man ought not, like a mushroom, to spring up And rot upon the ground that nourished him, Leaving no trace of life-like energy!