Quote

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
Aphorist
Art Critic
Art Theorist
Autobiographer
Botanist
Composer
Diarist
Diplomat
Jurist
Lawyer
Librarian
Librettist
Literary
Frankfurt/Main
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Goethe
goethe
johann wolfgang von goethe
joh. wolfg. von goethe
j. w. von goethe
Right
Always
Jesting
Men
Understands
Severe
Errors
Serious
True
Nature

More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image
I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
One needs only to get old to become milder I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
For the nature of women is closely allied to art
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The highest cannot be spoken it can only be acted.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe