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Letter "J" » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
«There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bring, bring back, builds, creates, eternally, Itself, longing, longings, new, past, withdrawing, withdraws
«People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
abilities, adequate, adequate to, Eccentricities, eccentricity, fall into, People of, sphere, uncommon
«For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is»
«Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.»
«Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
mountains, paths, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, winding, windings
«People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.»
«Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.»
«The right man is the one who seizes the moment.»
«Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
earth, feelings, give in, overly, possession, sensitive, shaky, too much, unhappier, unhappiest, unhappy
«When two people are really happy about one another, one can generally assume that they are mistaken.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
assume, generally, mistaken
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