We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMy grandmother used to tell us a story of a mountain of loadstone. When any vessels came near it, they were instantly deprived of their ironwork: the nails flew to the mountain, and the unhappy crew perished amidst the disjointed planks.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: words
Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: contentment vanity self-confidence
Classisch ist das Gesunde, romantisch das Kranke.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: enthistorisierung epochenbegriff
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe¡Pasión! ¡Embriaguez!¡Demencia! ¡Todo esto es letra muerta para vosotros, impasibles moralistas!
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePeople of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: eccentric eccentricities
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTwo souls, alas, are housed within my breast,
And each will wrestle for the mastery there.
Tags: inner-conflict
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