Johann Wolfgang von Gogh Goethe quotes - Page : 5

" Who wants to understand the poem Must go to the land of poetry; Who wishes to understand the poet Must go to the poet's land. " # Poetry and Poets # Love # Understanding

" For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter. " # War

" Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature? " # Mathematics # Mistakes # Color

" All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on our own, just as with life. " # School # Poetry and Poets # Love

" One must be something in order to do something. "

" If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses. " # Friends and Friendship # Happiness # Work

" The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity. " # Science and Scientists # Arts and Artists # Truth

" Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah. Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen, denn das Glück ist immer da. "

" O'er all the hilltops Is quiet now, In all the treetops Hearest thou Hardly a breath; The birds are asleep in the trees: Wait; soon like these Thou too shalt rest. " # Silence # Love # Action

" Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige, die uns lehrt, uns selbst zu regieren. " # Identity # Death and Dying # United Nations