2,348 Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sabahleyin güneş doğup da nefis bir gün muştulayınca, hiçbir zaman haykırmaktan kendimi alamıyorum: işte yine birbirlerinin burnundan getirecekleri ilâhi bir nimet.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Niemand ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als jene, die fälschlicherweise glauben, frei zu sein.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.

THE LORD. You've nothing more to say to me? You come but to complain unendingly? Is never aught right to your mind?MEPHISTOPHELES. No, Lord! All is still downright bad, I find.

Ein deutscher Schriftsteller — ein deutscher Märtyrer! Ja, mein Guter, Sie werden es nicht anders finden. [...] Und wenn noch die bornierte Masse höhere Menschen verfolgte! Nein, ein Begabter und ein Talent verfolgt das andere [...] und jeder sucht den andern schlecht und verhaßt zu machen, da doch zu einem friedlichen Hinleben und Hinwirken die Welt groß und weit genug ist, und jeder schon an seinem eigenen Talent einen Feind hat, der ihm hinlänglich zu schaffen macht.

He's poodlishly ridiculous.

Shame upon him who can look on calmly, and exclaim,‘The foolish girl! she should have waited; she should haveallowed time to wear off the impression; her despair wouldhave been softened, and she would have found another loverto comfort her.’ One might as well say, ‘The fool, to die of afever! why did he not wait till his strength was restored, tillhis blood became calm? all would then have gone well, andhe would have been alive now.

How to please the public - that's the test,But nowadays I find I'm in a fix;I know they're not accustomed to the best,But they've all read so much they know the tricks.How can we give then something fresh and newThat's serious, but entertaining too?