Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Anniversary
1749–1832 Germany
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19 quotes
Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Girls we love for what they are;
Young men for what they promise to be.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
If I love you, what business is that of yours?
It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
My inheritance, how wide and fair
Time is my estate; to Time I'm heir.
Long is the calm brain active in creation;
Time only strengthens the fine fermentation.
Whoever attacks marriage undermines […] the basis of all moral society.
Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more.
What's it to you if I love you?
A world without love would be no world.
Thus at Time's humming loom I ply.
My peace is gone, my heart is heavy.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.