Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes
"Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity."
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words."
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."
"Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable."
"Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!"
"I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should."
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
