2,348 Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Genius feels no dread within his heart at the tempest nor the rain.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary, the music strikes more the more familiar we are with it.

A dragon-fly with beauteous wing / Is hov'ring o'er a silv'ry spring; / I watch its motions with delight,-- / Now dark its colours seem, now bright; / Chameleon-like appear, now blue, / Now red, and now of greenish hue. / Would it would come still nearer me, / That I its tints might better see.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

Softly breathes into your ear / All its fertilizing fullness, / While the moon's refreshing coolness, / Magic-laden, hovers near; / And, alas! ye're watered ever

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

Till Zeus sent, to make him rave.

A feast was in a village spread,-- it was a wedding-day, they said.