FAMOUS 201 QUOTES BY JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Live dangerously and you live right.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Colors are the deeds and sufferings of light.

On all the peaks lies peace.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.