Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.
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Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Knowing is not enough,we must apply
willing is not enough,we must do..
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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
