"Colors are light's suffering and joy"
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (page 87 of 88)
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"Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?"
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"How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart."
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"Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited."
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"Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must."
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"[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal."
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"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."
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"Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him."
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"Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops."
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"Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light."
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"The history of a man is in his character."
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"Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest."
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"Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me."
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"Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!"
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"No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country."
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"What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life."
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"The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it."
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"A world without love would be no world."
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"The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity."
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"A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth."
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