Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 10 of 179 )
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light.
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light.
If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image
Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of read more
Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish
the barriers of nationality.
[Ger., Wissenschaft read more
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish
the barriers of nationality.
[Ger., Wissenschaft und Kunst gehoren der Welt an, und vor ihhen
verschwinden die Schranken der Nationalitat.]
For the nature of women is closely allied to art
For the nature of women is closely allied to art
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much read more
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up
For to give is the business of the rich.
[Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
For to give is the business of the rich.
[Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
[Ger., Der Fiege droht nur, wo er sicher ist.]
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
[Ger., Der Fiege droht nur, wo er sicher ist.]
