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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
«Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
indecision, lamenting
«Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.»
«Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
knowable, retard, retarded, retarding
«The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
fashions, shaky, wavers
«I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
orator
«An unused life is an early death.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
unused, unused to
«Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse»
«We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
equal to, offer up, sacrifices
«I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
attracted, at length, cherished, poetic, predecessor