Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If you want to enjoy your own value, give value to the world.

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Each person must be considered in his particularity, and, in addition to his innate nature, his environment for a long time, the opportunities he had to form, as well as the steps on which he is currently situated, must also be taken into account .

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The wise say: don't judge anyone until you've been put in their shoes.

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It is a pleasant thing to study nature and yourself at the same time, without forcing either nature or your own spirit, but, by a gentle mutual action, balancing them both.

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The active man should concern himself with the justice of what he does; not to care about the justice of what happens.

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Necessity in the sea exalts man; small necessities debase him.

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People would get to know each other better if they didn't always compare themselves to each other.

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As a whole, don't lose sight of the goals you set for yourself, and in detail, let yourself be guided by the circumstances.

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We have knowledge of the world only to the extent that it stands in relation to man, and we want no other art than that which is an expression of this relation.

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As a man and as a citizen, the poet loves his homeland, but his true homeland, the one in which he exercises his poetic faculties, is nobility, beauty, which are not tied to any province or country; this beauty and this nobility he seizes and gives form to wherever he finds them.

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Art: another nature, just as mysterious, but more intelligible; for it proceeds from the intellect.

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To protect yourself from the world there is no surer way than art, and through nothing we bind ourselves more closely to the world than through art.

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Grateful to the nature that also produced him, the artist produces a second nature.

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Who ignites the storm of passions / and bathes the twilight in passions? / And on the dear path who spreads / vaults of branches and spring flowers? / From poor green leaves, who crowns / the chosen ones with immortality but / and, in Olympus, who gathers the gods? / Avântu-embodied: the poet only.

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If we have admired someone by finding him perfect and then discover his faults, it is not easy for us to judge him fairly. Our vanity is also at play, for we have been deceived and do not want to admit it, and it flatters us to believe that we have been deceived from the inside, thus throwing all the blame, anger and a kind of hatred on the unfortunate person, who in fact contributed nothing to the fact that we were quick to take him for what he did not ask to be taken.

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Yes, illusion, while it lasts, has the invincible power of truth, and only strong and deep spirits rise and strengthen themselves by the recognition of an error.

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The truth is one for everyone, but everyone sees it differently, and because it remains one, it is present in multiple views.

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It is true that the climb to the truth is difficult and slippery, but we would still not want to take it up carried by donkeys.

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He who makes a law of checking his deeds by thought, and thought by deeds, cannot err, or if he errs, he will soon find the right way.

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Error is to truth what sleep is to awakening: I have observed that you wake from error and return refreshed to truth.

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It is hard to take a stand against the errors of your age; if you resist them, you remain alone; if you allow yourself to be seduced by them, it is neither to your honor nor to your joy.

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If the wise were not mistaken, fools should despair.

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Obscurantism itself does not only mean preventing the spread of truth, light and good, but also promoting lies and falsehood.

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What floats in the air and what takes time can appear simultaneously in a hundred heads without any imitation.

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Happiness is often compared to a sphere, for both are rapidly rolling; this comparison is doubly justified, as it also contains a second meaning. The still sphere shows itself to the observer as perfect, closed in itself, a self-sufficient being, and therefore, like the happy one, it cannot draw attention to itself for too long. Any contentment, any reconciliation, regardless of what results, are simple. We are happy only for ourselves...

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The judge who is unable to punish ends up being the accomplice of the criminal.

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Bold thoughts play the role of pawns in the game of chess: they perish, but ensure victory.

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The weaknesses of distinguished men are especially striking, but how much we wish they were free from them.

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Acting among the small, you diminish, and among the great, you enrich.

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Only the man endowed with special sensitivity can become the coldest and the most firm. He is forced to hide under a hard shell... But this shell often becomes a burden to him. I need loud, vivid sounds. It is said that Napoleon, who was a tyrant, loved fine music, and I, probably because I am not a tyrant, love lively, joyful, loud music. Man always tends to be what he really is not.

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He who rebels against rational truths, kindles their flame; sparks fly in all directions and ignite the light. Wisdom is only in truth.

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Man knows himself only to the extent that he knows the world.

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Abroad will never be your homeland.

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What is the hardest? - What seems easiest to you: to see with your eyes what you have right in front of your eyes!

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The more original and unapproachable the poetic creation, the better.

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Although the whole world is moving forward, young people, every time, have to take it from the beginning.

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Facts have an unlimited power over the minds of most men, and the seemingly impossible finds its place alongside the ordinary as soon as it has happened.

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Whoever tends to a certain thing must be able to fight for it, otherwise there is absolutely no point in taking up anything.

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The real attention lies precisely in the fact that it instantly transforms any trifle into something significant.

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If you lose the good - you don't lose much, if you lose your honor - you lose a lot, if you lose your courage - you lose everything. To live learn to win.

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Soul and body are inseparable.

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If the man takes care of studying his body or his state of mind, he will immediately declare himself ill.

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Human life is like a strategy. We begin to discern it only when the campaign is over.

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And a mistake can be useful while we are young, if only we don't carry it with us into old age.

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Discovering something on your own is wonderful, but should knowing and appreciating what others discover be less than creating? Man is able to know himself only through other people.

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Unfortunately, man has too many reasons to protect himself from man. There are many people with bad intentions, there are not a few villains, and good deeds are not enough to live properly.

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No matter how much the fog and clouds cover the light, it always reaches us... This observation made me assert - in my poetic, scientific and artistic creations - the dominance of light over fog, the obvious over premonition, so that by depicting the external aspect of the phenomenon, we can always determine what lies within.

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When the gods appear to humans, the latter usually do not recognize them.

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Every day you must listen to at least one song, admire a beautiful painting and, if possible, read at least one wise maxim.

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As if love had anything in common with reason!

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Big goals, even unfulfilled, are dearer to us than small goals, even if they have been achieved.

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Speak persuasively, the words and influence on people will come naturally.

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The struggle between what is old, stable, constant and evolution, processing and transformation is always the same. All order eventually leads to pedantry; to get rid of it, order is destroyed, and things go on like this for a while, until the need to restore order is noticed.

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To be human is to be a fighter.

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In nature there are accessible and inaccessible areas. We must understand this and treat it with respect. The man who does not understand this can struggle all his life for something that is inaccessible to him. On the other hand, the man who is intelligent enough to limit himself to the accessible area, examining it from all sides and consolidating his knowledge, will be able, to a certain extent, to penetrate the inaccessible area as well. However, he will have to admit that there is something mysterious in nature, and understanding this is beyond human capabilities.

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Great passions are like incurable diseases... And the cures that could cure them make the disease even more dangerous. Passions are vices and virtues only stronger.

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Faith is not the beginning but the end of all wisdom.

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Sensitivity to something good and great is rarely found in people, and therefore in everyday life it is better to keep these considerations unspoken and express them only to the extent necessary to gain some advantages over others . Man recognizes and glorifies only that which he himself is capable of, but since the very existence of other people is rooted in mediocrity, they resort to cunning tricks: they insult in every way what, in literature, really deserves to be disapproved of, although it may that it would contain a good seed, so that the mediocrity they praise would rise even higher.

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Time has its rights not only in terms of people but also in terms of monuments.

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Everything that now grows and blossoms, whether they are foreign children or my own, is life, isn't it, life? What else can remind me that I exist and in what form do I exist?

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Every initiative, like every man, suffers from the age as much as it finds its advantages.

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Remarkable people are never ungrateful.

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Those who think a lot don't always make the best decisions.

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Who knows himself and the power of his limits?

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Should the brave path only belong to the brave?

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No one from above foretold that man's actions or his sufferings could ennoble him.

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No activity, which must last a long time and even become a vocation and a way of life, should not be started through a celebration. Celebrate only what has been successfully completed; either of the inaugural events exhausts the desire and strength which should stimulate and accompany us in our further endeavours. Of all the celebrations, that of marriage is also the most appropriate, since it, more than any other celebration, must be spent in silence, humility and hope.

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By treating our fellow men as they deserve, we only cause them more harm. By treating them as if they are better than they really are, we give them reasons to become better.

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There is only one unhappiness for man...when he is obsessed with an idea that has no bearing on real life or that distracts him from work.

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Courage can neither be taught nor unlearned.

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The characteristic property of man is the desire to start all over again...

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The first love of innocent youth is always directed towards the sublime. Nature seems to want one of the sexes to notice the goodness and beauty in the other.

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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone reflects their own face.

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Man's need to confess will never perish.

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People stop noticing the rainbow if it lasts a quarter of an hour.

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The most ridiculous desire is to be liked by everyone.

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No, I don't think that nature is beautiful in all its manifestations. Aspirations are always good, but the conditions of their manifestation do not always help them to show themselves fully.

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There is no folly that cannot be corrected by reason, and there is no wisdom that cannot be affected by folly.

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Hate is an active feeling of dissatisfaction; envy is a passive feeling. Therefore, do not be surprised if envy quickly turns into hatred.

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Only time will tell you what you have gained, what you have done wrong and what you have succeeded in.

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He who desires the impossible is dear to me.

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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real one, confusing the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. People throughout the ages have preferred twilight to clear days, but it is precisely in twilight that ghosts appear.

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The mass of men are united only by their prejudices and stirred only by their passions, and this often darkens and disturbs a noble purpose. But despite this, everyone gets excellent results, if not on the spot, then in the future, if not immediately, then in the form of the final result.

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We are never further from our desires than when we seem to have mastered what we desire.

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Thinking is a retort! You have to wait until your conscience has matured. Darkness, on the sides! Before you create, devote yourself to science entirely.

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The greatest difficulties arise where we least expect them.

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It cultivates not the illusion of what men might be, but the knowledge of what they really were and are.

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Not everything that an exceptional craftsman does is done in an exceptional way.

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Craft just isn't enough: the hand and the eyes... The brain is the most important.

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Ingratitude is the result of weakness.

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Most of the simple minds make a living by building castles from playing cards, although even the staunchest of them rarely completes the construction in their lifetime.

"One becomes older in order to become kinder; there is no mistake which I have not already made."

"A person understands himself not through thoughts, but with actions. It is only through making an effort that a person will understand his worth."

"Nature does not stop in its development, and it executes all kinds of idleness."

"Real virtue never looks back on its shadow, fame."

"When we treat our neighbors as they deserve to be treated, we make them even worse; when we treat them as if they were who we wish they were, we improve them."

"Perfection is of God. To wish for perfection is of man."

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I always feel your closeness, and knowing this, I am never alone.

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I think of you when the tide is bathed in sunlight; I think of you, spring water colored by the moonlight.

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He who does not command himself remains a servant until death.

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Thinking is more interesting than knowledge, but not more interesting than recognition.

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A wise word freezes in a clogged ear.

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A slave is really one who thinks he is free, when he is not.

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The most we can give our children are roots and wings.

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Many people felt that human life was just a dream, and this feeling has always been there in me as well. I see limitations that stand in the way of man's active and researching powers, I see that the purpose of all their efforts is only to satisfy needs, it has no other purpose than to prolong the life of a beggar, and then I see that reassurance regarding certain points of research is only sleepy resignation, we only ping the walls we are trapped in, full of colorful figures and radiant sights.

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Choose your dream well, because it determines the development of your entire life, your destiny, and it may even come true.

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Nothing is more harmful to new truth than old error.

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Every man of worth feels, especially as he grows in education, that he plays a double role in the world; one real and one ideal, and in this feeling is to be found the foundation of all noble things.

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So do as I do, and look wisely and cheerfully into the eyes of the moment! On it, don't lose a single one! Use it to your advantage, confidently, bravely, in your work as well as in love! Always be whole and be a child in your heart, that way you will be everything, you will be invincible!

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All life will be tolerable, if your essence remains; you can take any loss as long as you are who you are.

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To worry completely with joy and sorrow, immersed in thoughts, to float between torments, then to be renewed to heaven, then to grieve to death: only the soul that loves is happy.

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I lurch from longing to pleasure, and in pleasure I sink after longing.

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No one knows what he is doing when he is doing right; but we are always aware of what is wrong.

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If you look closely, all philosophy is just that: human reason wrapped in hazy speech.

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Talent is developed in silence, but character is developed in the storms of the world.

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Ah, this emptiness! this terrible emptiness I feel here in my soul! - I often think: if you could hold him to your heart just once, just once, this whole void would be filled.

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Perfection is the measure of heaven; to strive for perfection: of man.

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Man can only live with his own kind, and sometimes not even with them; because it's hard to bear it when the other person is just like him.

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Anything you can do or dream about...do it! There is genius, power and magic in boldness.

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Be happy if you can, and bear it if fate dictates it to you.

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The man roars, galls, stays, and is lured into a trap unnoticed; his joy grows, then he bathes in bitter juice.

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Happy are those who still believe that knowledge cures confusion! What we don't know is necessary, what is the use of what we know?

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There is only one bitter thing about it: life is short, work is long.

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On the bosom of wisdom, you will see, your happiness will increase daily.

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Your bookworm enthusiasm can be anything but what you can do, you only learn so much. Only he who is criminal at the right moment prospers.

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Long live the one who lives bravely!

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So keep to yourself, don't fall out of your role!

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We can teach you the secret of marital peace! In order for two people to love each other, they have to be divorced.

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It's up to you to redeem it, spread your protection over it: every treasure brings good to the whole world if you guard it.

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Freedom and life do not come, only for those who have to earn them daily.

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There is only one basic truth about all initiating and creative actions - the moment one makes a firm commitment, Providence also comes into play.

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He who doesn't love and isn't wrong can go to the grave.

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Children and birds know the real flavor of life.

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What initially, when we took it superficially, provided happy enjoyment, later becomes depressing when we realize that there is no enjoyment without thorough knowledge.

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A person must be someone (...) to do something. Dante looms large for us, but we have centuries of education behind us; the Rothschild house is rich, but it took more than a tailor to acquire such treasures.

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Talent learns everything, genius knows everything.

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Living in the ideal means treating the impossible as if it were possible.

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A fool thinks he is wise, and a wise man does not envy him.

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He who has never eaten his bread in tears, who has never cried at the edge of his bed on a troubled night, does not know the powers of the other world.

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We transform and adapt to the one we love.

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A miracle is the dearest child of faith.

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I give what is greatest: my heart, which set out and searched for yours. Hide me, keep me alive, my love. I will be with you, you will be my everything.

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Dig deep into yourself first, and if you don't understand yourself, don't keep torturing someone else.

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You can resist your fate, but sometimes the fist is clenched; out of your way, if it doesn't go astray, hey, get out of the way!

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Nothing is worth more than today.

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If a person wants to meet all expectations, he will certainly overestimate his own abilities.

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Seek, artist, solitude, conceive a work and finish it; but to enjoy your creation, look for companions.

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Thinking is easy, acting is hard. But acting on our thoughts is the hardest part.

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People rarely succeed at anything they don't enjoy doing.

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You were born to be loved. I was born to love you. And my life is only worth as much happiness as you give me.

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Nature is the only book that gives us great content on every page.

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Nature does not understand jokes: she is always true, always serious, always strict, always right; errors and mistakes are always human.

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The true love that always remains the same, even when it is denied everything.

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Mathematicians are like the French: whatever you say to them, they immediately translate it into their own language, and voila! that's completely different.

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Art is the interpreter of the unspeakable.

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If we see people for what they are, we make them worse; but if we treat them as they are what they should be, we help them become what they can be.

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Doubt grows with knowledge.

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Everything that is created deserves to be destroyed.

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The love that reveals itself in prayer is a miracle worker.

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I am convinced that we find the Bible more and more beautiful, the more we understand it, that is, the more we understand and see that every word that we understand in general and apply to ourselves in particular had a specific, directly individual aspect according to place and time.

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Once you learn to trust yourself, you learn to live.

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Cheerfulness is the mother of all virtues.

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Those who are scientifically or artistically educated also have a religion. But one who is not proficient in either must surely need religion.

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The highest task of all art is to give the illusion of a higher reality through appearance.

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Extraordinary things do not happen in the normal, everyday way.

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Almost hidden by nature, we have everything we will need in life, and it can all develop by itself.

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I know that we are not equal, nor can we be, but I think that the person who considers it necessary to protect his authority to distance himself from the so-called inferior people is just as reprehensible as the person who hides from his enemy because he is afraid of being inferior.

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Faith is nothing, action is everything.

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You are the crown of life, the never-ending happiness, love.

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A man is young as long as he can please a young woman.

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I have a problem with underestimating the devil, because the one whom everyone hates is someone!

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Since then, the sun, the moon and all the stars can do their work, I don't know if it's day or night, and the whole world has sunk in for me.

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If you keep the desire for a beautiful life, you shouldn't care about the past, and always act as if you were reborn when you suffer a loss. What does he want? - ask him every day. And every day he will then answer: Be able to rejoice in your actions, be able to appreciate the actions of others; Above all, don't hate a single person, and leave the rest to God!

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A useless life equals an early death.

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To refresh yourself in the great Whole, see the Whole in every small part.

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It's not the pain that brings tears to the eyes, but the pain that we bear with a smile and quietly for a lifetime.

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Nature invented death to ensure the eternal continuity of life.

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It was an indescribable beauty for them to mutually look at each other, and their innocent souls completely surrendered to this beauty, without harboring lively desires or thinking of any continuation.

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There is peace on every mountaintop, you can barely feel the wind on the treetops, the birds are silent in the forest. Just wait, you'll be resting soon too.

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Love gives in a minute what long toil hardly ever achieves.

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We cannot mold our child into what we want. We must accept and love them as God gave them.

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Create, artist! Do not talk!

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Which is the best government? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

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If someone says that he has refuted me, he forgets: he has only opposed a certain opinion to my opinion; nothing has been decided yet.

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However, he who realizes with a humble soul what is the end goal of everything, who sees how decently every wealthy citizen turns his little garden into a paradise, and then how even the unfortunate person slogs unwaveringly on his way under his burden, and everyone equally has the same desire, that he wishes he could see this world for a minute longer - yes, such a person becomes silent and also creates his own world out of himself, and is also happy because he is human. And then, no matter how limited he lives, he always keeps in his heart the sweet feeling of freedom and the fact that he can leave this prison whenever he wants.

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However, nothing annoys me more than when people torture each other, and above all, when young people in the prime of their lives, who could reveal themselves most clearly to the joys of life, spoil, by creating a bad image, their few good days, and only see them too late , how irreparable their waste is.

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Isn't it enough that we can't make each other happy, do we rob even the joy that every heart can still get for itself from time to time? Show me a man who has a bad mood, and yet is so decent that he hides it, carries it alone, and does not destroy the joy around him! Or is it not rather annoyance at our own unworthiness, displeasure with ourselves, always combined with some envy, which in turn is incited by some foolish vanity? We see happy people who we didn't make happy, and it's unbearable.

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Passion! Drunkenness! Madness! You stand so calmly, so pitilessly before these things, you moralists! You rebuke the drunkard, you despise the fool, you pass him by, and thank God, like the Pharisee, that he did not create you as one of these. I have been drunk more than once, my passions have never been far from madness, and I do not regret any of them, because I have learned on my own that every extraordinary person who has done something great, something seemingly impossible, must always and necessarily be called drunk and crazy. But even in everyday life, it is unbearable to hear that in the case of any, even half-free, noble, unexpected act, the verdict is immediately ready: this person is drunk, this person is a fool. Shame on you sane people! Shame on you wise men!

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Peace of mind and being able to enjoy ourselves is a great thing.

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Every artist has a germ of recklessness, without which talent is unimaginable.

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What attracted you, no longer attracts you, What tormented you, can no longer torment you, Your war, your peace, nothing hangs... My heart, tell me, what will happen to us?

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Why are you so sad, Where every heart rejoices? Your eyes show it, don't deny it, You cried here alone. (...) Your cheerful friends are calling, Everyone loves me like that. If your loss is still so great, you can forget it between us.

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The thinking man's good and happiness is to explore the inscrutable and to respect the inscrutable with silent reverence.

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The worst thing that can happen to a person is to think badly of himself.

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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

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When you're on your way, You often lose faith, But don't hurt, Because what's lost Will find you someday.

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An intelligent person finds almost everything ridiculous, a sensitive person almost nothing.

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A fool's whisper is a wise man's word.

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I don't have the right to punish a fault I have caused myself.

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I open my window only for him, I leave the house only for him.

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Offer your soul to the Lord God! How much more burden would you take on yourself?

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Love unites a noble couple in earthly bliss, but only gives them sublime celestial nectar in threes.

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The fickle crowd stands hesitating, and goes where the tide takes it.

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Never trust the bottom of the water, hold on to the heights!

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It's not difficult for someone who takes a good look at himself to get carried away.

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My greatest desire you know what? Actually, it's my shadow to jump over.

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Goodness of heart occupies a wider space than the wide field of justice.

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What man does not feel, he smothers with scorn, what is good and beautiful, he laughs at what he does not understand: he sneers.

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That when something comes up, you have to give your opinion right away: it's stupid, it's smart, it's right, it's ugly! What is this worth? Have you perhaps realized the inner components of any action? Can you safely establish the reasons why what happened happened and why it happened the way it did? If you understood how, you wouldn't be so quick to judge.

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We call the contingent reality ordinary, in which we do not discover any law of nature or freedom at the moment.

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I need intoxication, which is the most painful pleasure, Amorous hatred, which torments refreshingly.

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Torment and fleeting lust, Success, failure, danger Replace each other in a hurry.

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After all, you are what you are. Wear a wig with a million curls, Walk on heels or sit on a throne, You will always remain what you are.

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If you have broken this being, another will rise above the ruins. On the lap of this earth, what can make us happy, And this sun shines here on our pains; If I have dropped this burden, Let it be, and as it may be.

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Curse the proud opinion, With which our mind is adorned, Curse the dazzle, light, Which falls our senses!

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Life is only torment, my terrible prison, The grave, what attracts me, - I hate existence.

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How clearly I always saw my condition, and yet how always I acted like a child; I can still see so clearly today, and there is still no hope of improvement.

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After all - you are what you are. Get your guest hair done with a thousand curly curls, attach long stilts to yourself, and you will remain what you are forever.

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If you look at someone, for example, a child, as he is now, at the present moment, you will hinder his development. However, if you look at him in terms of what he could become, you help him develop.

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To know a person with whom, despite the distance and unspoken thoughts, you feel that you understand each other - this turns this earth into a garden of flowers.

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Man believes that he controls his life, leads himself; and his inner self is irresistibly drawn to his destiny.

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Human life promises greatness: how beautiful the day is and how great the night is! And we, even though we are nicknamed the powers of Eden, hardly rejoice in the royal day: man drifts into a confused struggle now with himself, then with the environment: no one can have a true companion, outside the gloom is the inner glow, from under the shining face the boo breaks out, the salvation is before us - and we don't see you welcome.

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Reunion is a blessing, farewell is a wound, a new reunion is even sweeter, and a moment makes up for years; the final divorce still remains.

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If your soul is cheerful and your goals are clear, you can go a long way forward.

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Where trust is lacking, love's wreath lacks its most beautiful flower.

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Love doesn't rule, but it works and that's more.

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I'd rather have a thousand envious people than one who feels sorry for me.

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He who seizes every moment: He wins over fate.

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What glitters is only worth a minute, A great work is worth a more beautiful posterity.

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An active person cares to do the right thing; whether appropriate things are happening should not be a concern.

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When a person thinks about his physical and moral reality, he usually finds himself sick.

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Everyone has something in their nature that would displease them if they were to express it freely.

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It is very appropriate to make mistakes while we are young, but we must stop doing so when we are old.

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There are not frogs everywhere there is water, but there is water where you hear frogs.

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The world is full of mystery anyway, why do they make even the simplest phenomena mysterious.

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Anyone can notice if I'm wrong, but not if I'm lying.

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We can imagine ourselves much more: in the state of a brain that finds itself in the most determined error, than in one that deceives itself with half-truths.

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He who struggles to the death can hope for salvation.

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If the eye were not like the sun, it would never see the sun. And if we didn't have a heavenly spark lurking in us, the divine beauty would never make us happy.

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Our desires are harbingers of latent abilities within us.

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If we want to stay young, let's read a poem every day, listen to some music, look at a beautiful painting and, if possible, do something good. A person's main merit is precisely that, if he can, he overcomes external circumstances and allows them as little influence as possible.

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The moment of death is when the soul leaves the controlling central force, but only to establish new relationships, since it is immortal by nature.

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We are one, no matter how far away you go, It's dusk, the light of the stars is already on, even if you were here!

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A figment, a deceptive charm. The magnificent emotion, which can create life, is lost in the earthly confusion.

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The word does not weld hearts to hearts, If it did not come from your heart.

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What you don't feel, it's a shame to chase it; If it doesn't flow from your soul.

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Wisdom is contained only in truth.

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It is just as difficult for us to learn something from samples as it is from nature.

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All, all gone! No sign of that former world, not a single heartbeat left of my feelings at that time. It's like I'm a ghost returning to his burned-out, ruined castle, the splendidly decorated palace he built himself when he was a rich prince, which he left to his beloved son full of hope even in his dying days.

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Certain spirits should be left with their idiocies.

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There are hardly any ordinary things that do not seem humorous when expressed in a distorted way.

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The happiest person is the one who can connect the end of his life with the beginning.

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We appropriately call our masters those from whom we always have something to learn. Not everyone from whom we learn deserves this title.

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Snow is feigned purity.

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Some people beat the wall left and right with a hammer and think they hit the nail on the head each time.

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In a crowd, nothing depends on knowing people, but on being smarter than those who are in front of you at any given moment. All fairs and fair announcements are proof of this.

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We should know each other better if we don't want to always put ourselves in the same line as others.

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Even with the best will and effort, people cannot recognize each other; even ill will contributes to this, which distorts everything.

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Generosity pleases everyone, especially when combined with humility.

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In order to fulfill all that is expected of us, we have to hold ourselves more than necessary.

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What comes from the heart is only thrown at other hearts.

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I hear you when the wave roars dully and crashes on the shore; in the grove, when silence falls on me, it greets you. Our souls meet no matter how far apart. The sun is going down, the stars will be shining soon. Oh, are you coming already?!

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But I'm just me, Take what I can give! And if you are less, Paint yourself more beautiful. Because I'm just me, Take what I can give.

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Worry dwells at the root of our heart, and there it sprouts secret torments, restless tossing and turning, disturbing peace and pleasure; he wears a new mask every time.

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Man learns anything about himself and his destiny only through joy and sorrow: he learns what to do and what to avoid.

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All the knowledge I possess is available to everyone else, but my heart is mine alone.

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He who is averse to his idea, in the end, does not possess the concept either.

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We see things simply from the front, but in many ways afterwards.

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Where sympathy ceases, remembrance also ceases.

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A limited honest person can often completely see through the tricks of the most subtle tricksters.

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He who suffers my faults becomes master over me, even if he is my servant.

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There are people who do not make mistakes at all because they do not set any smart goals for themselves.

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The empirical moral world consists largely of malice and envy.

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What is mysterious is not yet a miracle.

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The person who acts is always without a conscience, only the observer has a conscience.

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Those who do not know foreign languages ​​do not know anything about their own.

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The world is a cracked bell: it rattles but does not ring.

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Time itself is one of the elements.

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An incorrect state is one that causes more annoyance every day.

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Knowledge is not enough, you also have to adapt; it is not enough to want to, you also have to act.

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There are two peaceful powers: law and decency.

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Peculiarity begets peculiarity.

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The best thing we owe to history is the enthusiasm it inspires.

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The love of truth is manifested in the fact that someone can invent and appreciate the good everywhere.

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People who think deeply and seriously are in a difficult position in front of the public.

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There is nothing more terrible than active ignorance.

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The difficulties increase as you get closer to the goal.

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The intrusion of young dilettante dancers must be tolerated with good will: they will be the truest admirers of the art and the master.

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No one is master of actual productivity; and all we can do is leave it.

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In a girl, we like what she is, in a young man, what he promises.

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All the pleasures of life are rooted in the regular alternation of external phenomena. The rotation of night and day, the return of the seasons, the development of flowers and fruits, and what else comes to our elixir over time and serves for our pleasure, being offered and even demanded: these are the true springs of earthly existence.

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The typical natural endowment of a talented person: easy perception, excellent memory, language skills.

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We realize late that we build our faults together with the development of our virtues. For they are rooted in these, and the root branches out secretly and invisibly with the same force as the crown in the sunlight. Since we mostly practice our virtues consciously and willingly, our weaknesses, on the other hand, come upon us unconsciously, so we rarely find joy in them, while these, on the other hand, torment and torment us incessantly. This is where the most difficult part of self-knowledge, its almost killing letter, lies.

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Just as it is said that trouble never comes alone, the same can be said about luck, and even about other circumstances it can be concluded that they mostly gather around us harmoniously, either because fate orders it that way or because people have some kind of strength , which attracts related things.

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Full, half, and quarter mistakes can be difficult and laborious to correct and detect, and it is also difficult to put their truth where it belongs.

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Passions are faults or virtues - only more so.

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There is no real, warm joy in the world like seeing a great soul open up to you.

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Nothing in the world makes man necessary, only love.

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All theories are dull, and the golden tree of existence is green.

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No one can walk under the palm trees with impunity.

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He doesn't really love someone who doesn't see his love's flaw as a virtue.

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The whole life: wanting and not achieving, achieving and not wanting.

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Whether the work of art is large or small: everything, down to the smallest detail, depends on the concept.

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We are happy to look into the future, because the insecurity that moves to and fro in me, we would gladly guide it to our advantage with a silent wish.

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Act judiciously - this is the practical equivalent of Know Thyself. We should not consider any of them as absolute laws or requirements, they were both presented to us like the black of the target board: we must always aim for it, but we cannot always hit it. People would be smarter and happier if they could distinguish between their own limitless goals and the goals set before them by circumstances, and if they learned step by step what their means lead to.

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A moral man arouses sympathy and love only to the extent that desire is perceived in him; it expresses both possession and desire, the possession of a tender heart and the desire to find the same in someone else; with this we attract, with this we surrender.

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The study of the arts, like that of the old authors, lends us a certain bearing, produces satisfaction in ourselves; filling our insides with great themes and great feelings, it will master all desires that aspire outward, but nurtures all worthy needs in the silent bosom; and like painters, sculptors, and architects, so does the art lover: he works alone for pleasures that he does not even think of sharing with others.

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The closest to perfection is the one who sees his own limitations.

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Painful, self-torturing, and gloomy states of mind can only be escaped and freed from a view of nature and a sincere interest in the outside world. The most general acquaintance with nature, from whatever side it originates, active intervention, be it that of the gardener or the cultivator, the hunter or the miner, distracts us from ourselves; the direction of spiritual forces towards real, true phenomena offers the greatest satisfaction, enlightenment and education, step by step.

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Those who are capable of something, even a lot, usually make the mistake of believing themselves to be capable of everything, and the young person must believe this in order to be able to do something.

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Tolerance can actually only be a passing feeling: it must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to offend.

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No one is self-deceived if they expect a lot in their youth. But just as he felt the foreboding in his heart then, so he must seek fulfillment there, in his heart, and not outside himself.

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Basically, no matter how we look at it, we are all collective beings. After all, how little is our own property in the true sense of the word! We all have to receive and learn from those who lived before us and also from those who are our contemporaries. Even the greatest firebrand wouldn't get very far if he wanted to draw everything from his own inner self.

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In every great separation there is the germ of madness; we must be careful to bring it to life and educate it thoughtfully.

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Those healthy people, in whose physical and mental organism every part lives an independent life.

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How many, how many years must be put on it to at least presumably know what to do and how to do it!

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Misunderstanding and laziness perhaps cause more confusion in the world than cunning and evil. The latter two are at least necessarily rarer.

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The day belongs to error and mistake, longer time to result and success.

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Vanity is a desire for personal glory: we don't expect to be appreciated, respected, or wanted for our qualities, merits, or deeds, but for the reason of our individual existence.

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What I tried to do in my life by following false trends, I finally learned - to see through.

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Our opinions are just additions to our existence. Let me see how you think, I'll tell you what's missing! Very empty people think a lot about themselves, the famous are distrustful, the inveterate sinner is brash, the good are worried. This is how everything comes into balance; everyone wants to be whole, or at least to appear to be whole.

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You could jokingly say: a person is made up only of mistakes, some of which are useful to society, others are found to be useless. We praise the former kinds, these are the virtues; we condemn the latter, they are called: errors.

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Truths must be repeated many times, because mistakes are also repeated many times.

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It would be useful for us to labor to present a person's character, but let's collect his deeds and actions, and we have a picture of his character in front of us.

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The Holy Trinity created Nature in a way that could not have been better. An organ on which the Eternal plays and the Devil operates the bellows.

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What is the world without love? Which is a magic lamp without light!

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Whoever writes a story finds a way to get rid of the past.

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What makes a person is not only what he was born with, but also what he acquired for himself.

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When we praise someone, we align ourselves with them.

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It is not the rational man who rules, but reason, not the intelligent, but reason.

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The true disciple learns to explain the unknown from the things he knows and to approach the master.

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Truth is akin to divinity; it does not appear directly, but we have to infer it from his statements.

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It is not birth or earthly rank that makes a person noble, but spirit and character.

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We are the same with distance as we are with the future! A great, looming whole rests before our soul, our feeling blurs in it like our eyes, and alas! we long to give our whole being, to be saturated with all the delights of a single, great divine feeling. - And oh! if we hurry there, if From There becomes Here, everything is always the same, and we are trapped in our poverty, in the slavery of our limitations, and our souls continue to ache for the fading relief.

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Only the wealth of nature is infinite, only it forms the great artist. Much cannot be said in favor of the rules, about what one can say in praise of civil society. He who conforms to them will never commit bad taste or evil, just as he who is modeled by law and prosperity will never become an intolerable neighbor, a special rascal; but, on the other hand, all rules, whatever they say, kill the true feeling and true expression of nature!

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It's a pity that nature only made you one person, because you had the material for both the waist and the rascal!

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You tremble because of what will not come, and what you will never lose, you must constantly mourn.

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A young man sees a rose, a wild rose in the meadow; beautiful, like the dawn light, the boy runs easily, this is what he has been longing for for a long time. Red rose, rosebud, wild flower in the meadow.

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But I found a heart, a noble soul, with whom, when I was together, I felt more than I was, because I was all that I could be.

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Go ahead! You give guidance, remove all barriers to imagination, let passion, feeling, knowledge work and remember this well: a dose of folly!

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The Beautiful is higher than the Good; the beautiful includes the good.

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You are in the form of the sea, which is given various names and is ultimately all salt water.

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A nation only acquires judgment when it can judge itself. However, he arrives at this great privilege very late.

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Everyone still has enough power to carry out what they are convinced of.

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One may recognize the usefulness of an idea and yet not understand it sufficiently to make full use of it.

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Does the sparrow know what the stork feels?

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Whoever misses the first buttonhole cannot button it all the way through.

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That children don't know what they want is something that all well-educated teachers and hop masters agree on; that, however, adults also stumble on this earth like children, and just like them, they do not know where they come from and where they are going; that they act just as little according to true goals, and are governed just as much with rusks and cakes and birch sticks: no one likes to believe that, even though I think it is a tangible truth.

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All the gifts, all the favors in the world cannot replace a single moment of inner joy.

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My God! You decreed the fate of man that he should not be happy until he comes and if only when he has lost his mind again!

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- So who are you? - It is part of the force that is forever doing evil and forever doing good.

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I uselessly stretch out my arms towards him in the morning, when I wake up from a heavy dream, I search for him in my bed at night, when a happy, innocent dream has come upon me, as if I were sitting next to him in the meadow and would hold his hand and cover it with a thousand kisses. Oh, if at this time, still half in the throes of sleep, I reach for it and wake up from it - a flood of tears pours from my suffocating heart, and I sob disconsolately towards the dark future.

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We see each other again (...), we find each other, we recognize each other in all forms.

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Self-knowledge is not achieved by reflection, but by action. Try to do things and you will soon see what material they are made of.

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Anyone who wants to be big has to pull himself together. Only the master shows himself in his limitations. And the law can only give us freedom.

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He who was born in the most evil age finds evil to be good.

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There are many people who imagine that they understand what they experience.

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In his youth, everyone thinks that the world started with him, that everything is actually for him.

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If I love you, what does that have to do with you?

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Merely looking at something does not move us forward. Every view passes into view.

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Smoking is the pastime of mediocre people, of bored slobs who spend a third of their lives sleeping.

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Fortune's barometer rarely stops for now, It's not enough to open your eyes. You must fall or rise, Win or lose, win or suffer, Anvil or hammer.

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If you do good, do it only for good! Pass this on to your child: And if your child is sorry for the word, your grandson will take it to heart.

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Wisdom and unreason must suffer the same contradiction.

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In fact, we only know when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.

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He who is true to himself and others and remains true, is the owner of the most beautiful property of great talents.

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Even the highest probability of fulfillment leaves one last doubt; therefore (...) it is always surprising when what we hoped for comes true.

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The benefit of breathing is twofold: fresh air enters our lungs and we exhale again. This depresses me, refreshes me; life is so wonderfully mixed. So bless the name of God as soon as he is distressed, and when he lets go, bless him again.

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Wherever we look, nature emanates infinity.

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A smart person does not commit petty foolishness.

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I can promise to be honest, but not impartial.

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Our passions are real phoenixes. As the old fades away, the new emerges, as it were, from its ashes.

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The harsh, harsh voice of the world usually sounds the fiercest, the most violent, when our spiritual harmony is tuned to the highest, and the secret acting opposite thus suddenly attacks us and screams all the more.

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Young people are nature's new ideas.

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Disabilities are only perceived by the unloved; therefore, in order to see it, we must become unloving ourselves, but never more than necessary.

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Resentment and hatred allow only the observer, guided by any sharp mind; but if the latter is coupled with good will and love, it penetrates the human-world.

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Knowledge and practice are not enough: Patience is the solution!

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The light on his face, the blush on his lips: I will not forget until the grave swallows me. As he lowers his eyes, he puts his seal on my heart.

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As the Sun - when you were born - stood shining among the planets in the sky: From the very beginning, you have continuously developed according to the law that lives within you. You can't escape it yourself, you have to live like this, Sibyls, oracles, they said this long ago; Time and power do not crush into pieces what the developing life carved into shape.

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He who was born with talent and talent: he has found the most beautiful form of being.

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There is nothing more delicate than the past; as to a fiery iron, approach it with fear: otherwise it would make you aware of how hot your own age is.

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Now all the trees are silent, The foliage is quiet, you hardly feel it, It swings: The night never comes. The bird from Berk is already hiding, you too will calm down soon, don't be afraid.

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All life is worth living, just stay true to yourself. Loss cannot befall you, As long as you are, you are ours.

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A person sees from the world what he carries in his heart.

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I would not even be convinced by a clearly audible heavenly voice that a woman can give birth without a man and that the dead rise.

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If we take a person as he is, we actually make him worse, but if we take him as he should be, we make him what he could be.

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The favor of the great, the goodwill of the powerful, the support of the influential, the recognition of the masses, the love of individuals, everything changes and fluctuates, we can stop it as little as the course of the Sun, Moon, and stars, even though these things are not natural phenomena: if we lose them, our or we lose it due to the mistakes of others, by chance or the whim of fate, but all this is changeable, we can never be sure about it.

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As a man resolves to become a soldier and go to war, he bravely resolves to defy danger and toil, to bear wound, pain, even death, but he cannot imagine in any way the special cases in which these generally expected troubles are extremely unpleasant. they surprise me: everyone who sets out in the world goes the same way.

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The Church is a bottomless pit, It has captured entire provinces, But it has never been well inhabited; Only the Church is ready to eat a little something.

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Architecture is music turned to stone.

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We immediately see if somewhere the two most necessary qualities are missing: spirit and strength.

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And if the eternal thread of nature is twisted more and more indifferently on a spindle, And the disharmonious mass of creatures is confused into an annoying riff, Who can step into the monophonic process, Enlivened to be rhythmic, And who initiates the individual into a comprehensive one, Which sends a message with beautiful chords? Who stirs up a storm of passion? Who weaves a deeper signal from twilight blush? And who sprinkles petals, when all flowers grow, Where the lovely one walks? Who will weave into a glorious wreath The ivy, which fades in itself? Who will unite Olympus? Human power, residing in poets!

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Close your eyes, prick up your ears; in the softest voice and the wildest blast, in the simplest voice and the most exalted harmony; in the fiercest, most passionate screams and in the most velvety words of common sense, it is Nature who speaks, revealing and revealing her being, power, liveliness and relationships, so that even the blind, who is denied the experience of the visible world, can perceive and understand the boundless liveliness in all that is can be heard.

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The senses do not deceive, it is the judgment that misleads.

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There is no light for which Nature would remove its veil with its beauty, and which does not reveal itself to your soul, and you cannot extract it from it with any machine.

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I pass through the forest and field quickly, and I don't even think of asking for a bird's feather. All my joy is in my spiritual treasures, that I can leap from book to book!

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Let me cry! fallen into the night in the endless desert. The camel rests, the horseman rests, the Armenian watches silently counting; and I, next to him, count the miles from here to Szulejka, taking the road-enhancing, annoying bends one after another. Let me cry! there is no shame in crying. The mourning man is good.

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It would be difficult to give an exact account of those transitions, which sometimes appear to be progress, sometimes regression, but all of them must serve the good and benefit of the person guided by God.

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The realists: what cannot be fulfilled, we do not wish for. Idealists: what we wish for cannot be fulfilled immediately.

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What good is this whirling of suns, planets and moons, stars and milky ways, comets and nebulae, existing and future worlds, if not for the happy person to enjoy his existence without forgetting?

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A person can accomplish a lot by the expedient use of one of his powers, even the extraordinary by the cooperation of several abilities, but he is only capable of a unique, not even hopeful performance, if all his qualities step into the barrier together.

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I lived for you, at all events, honestly, as I describe; Others sleep through their intoxication Mine is here on paper.

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His soul boils, he is attracted by the distance, He already guesses his madness, He asks for a star from the vault of the sky, And he waits for the highest lust on earth, And everything near and everything far Few for his bosom, the price is so deep there.

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Let me see the power and core of things, and not rummage through the dross of words.

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We are rarely able to satisfy ourselves; it is all the more comforting to be able to satisfy others.

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There are so many great and good things in the world at the same time, yet they do not meet.

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Don't scold the ordinary, it will remain forever as it is.

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Male intoxication: this is how the beloved was called in the seventeenth century, and how aptly so.

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There is something magical about the rhythm: it almost makes us believe that the sublime is ours.

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Excellence is often seen as selfishness.

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Truth is a torch, and a terrible one at that; that's why we all try to sneak past it with squinting, what's more, fearing that it will burn us.

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In the affairs of our world, only those smart, active people who know their power and can use it sparingly can achieve much.

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Happy is he who does with joy and is happy with the deed.

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Success and failure Nothing stops its alternation; A man is always active.

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We need what we don't know, and what we do know, we don't need anything.

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How great nature shines. What light the sun casts! What smells! Earth, branch laden with colorful flowers, A thousand bird songs in every bush. A thousand cries await an echo: "O earth, O blessing, O sunbeam!"