Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Philosophy

• I love those who yearn for the impossible.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Philosophy, Life Is Good

  "Faust, Part 2". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act II, "Classical Walpurgis Night", 1832.

• Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspiring, Philosophy

  "'Das Märchen' ('The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily')". Story by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1795. Translated by Thomas Carlyle, 1832, wn.rsarchive.org.

• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspiring, Marriage

• The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Philosophy, History

• Man errs as long as he strives.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Philosophy, Men

  Faust pt. 1 "Prolog im Himmel" (1808)

• One lives but once in the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Philosophy, World

  "Clavigo". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 1, 1774.

• Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Educational, Philosophy, Believe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1976). “Faust: a tragedy : backgrounds and sources, the author on the drama, contemporary reactions, modern criticism”, W. W. Norton & Company

• Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Philosophy, Rights

• All our knowledge is symbolic.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Philosophy, History

• We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Philosophy, History

• Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.53, Ravenio Books

• I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Philosophy, Medicine, Cost

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.1987, Delphi Classics

• The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Philosophy, Mistake

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.139, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Philosophy, Medicine, Here I Am

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (2011). “Faust”, p.31, Bantam Classics

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