Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Use Quotations

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.

We have time enough if we but use it aright

Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.

The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.