Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes and its meanings

Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

I call architecture frozen music.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

In art the best is good enough.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

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

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

In art the best is good enough.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

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

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

A useless life is an early death.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

An unused life is an early death.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

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

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

In art the best is good enough.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

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

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

I call architecture frozen music.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

On all the peaks lies peace.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

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

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.