This accident is not a misfortune, but bearing it well turns it to an advantage.
romantic · german-literature
Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1749–1832
Poet, dramatist, and naturalist of Weimar. Action over result, formation of character, and the fear of leftover freedom.
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
One lives but once in the world.
Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
If you assign people duties without granting them any rights, you must pay them well.
One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit — this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.