Don't tell those who won't understand the best things you can know.
It is only when we know little that we can be sure of our knowledge. Doubt increases as knowledge increases.
I would give up everything for my love, but I would also give up my love for my freedom.
Hunger hooks even the smartest fish.
The fools are the most harmful of thieves. They steal your time and your joy.
Love makes many impossible things possible.
It is customary; What the father collects, the son scatters.
Oppression and violence arise from loneliness, character takes shape among the storms and waves of the world.
In the beginning there was action. (Faust)
Some imperfections are necessary for human existence.
The greater the knowledge, the greater the restlessness.
Without perseverance in a man his knowledge is dead.
There is no better indicator for getting to know a person than what they find ridiculous.
During an argument, as soon as we get angry, we stop striving for truth and start striving for ourselves.
A talent occurs in tranquility, a character in the storms of the world.
A little more light.
No one can deceive us; we deceive ourselves.
If all your attention is on yourself, you are guaranteed happiness.
Those who are not involved in the solution become part of the problem.
Let's be happy that the thorn has a flower, instead of being sad because the flower has thorns.
The world is so big and rich that life is so diverse that one can always find the opportunity to make poetry out of it. But every poem must arise from a situation, that is, the substance of the poem must be real. I don't think a poem based on anything is good.
Thinking is easy, doing is difficult. In the world, the hardest thing is doing whatever on our minds.
The world is beautiful, but it is even more beautiful through the eyes of a poet.
A ruler who does not gather valuable people around him is like a commander without an army.
The most dangerous state in the world is the state of ignorance and organized action.
What is the best state? It teaches us to govern ourselves.
The most peaceful societies are those where mutual kindness and respect are not lacking among their members.
The best management is one that can teach us to govern ourselves.
If a person acts against his own character, we interpret this as 'He has not much time left'.
If God wanted me to be any other way, He would have created me differently.
A useless life is an early death.
We like to look to the future because we want to shape the events that are flying shapelessly before us as we wish.
As long as I live with the power of truth, I can even conquer the universe.
You don't have to travel the world to realize that the sky is blue everywhere.
“No matter how big your heart is,
Fill it with that invisible object.
When your heart is overflowing with happiness,
Give it the name you want;
Happiness, Love, Heart, Light, God…
The name is nothing but noise.
It is a mist that hides the glory of the heavens from us…”
Adapting to a sick society does not mean being healthy.
If everyone did their own thing, all the affairs of society would go smoothly.
Nothing is more frightening than a tasteless imagination.
The greater the knowledge of man, the greater his restlessness.
Every day one should listen to a piece of music, read a good poem, see a beautiful painting and, if possible, say a few sensible sentences.
Emotions unite people, ideas separate them.
It doesn't surprise me to see how bad people are, but I'm astounded to see that they have no shame because of it.
Kindness is the golden chain that binds people together.
Man knows himself only in man.
If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we handle them as they should be, we will make them as good as they can be.
Do you want to have a good wife? So be a complete husband!
Faith is the power of life.
Whatever the heart is filled with, it falls from the lips.
Talking may be necessary, but silence is an art.
God created my brothers, but I found my friends.
People who have nothing to lose are feared.
We can't help being in a crowded meeting and thinking that the chance that brought so many people together should also bring our own friends together.
The servant who does not rule himself remains.
He who loses his property has lost something, he who loses his honor has lost many things. But the person who lost courage, lost Everything.
The rational person often laughs when it is nothing to laugh at. Whatever provokes her, her reaction expresses her own peace of mind.
For things that those in the grave regret, those in the world eat each other!
I've known happy people who were happy just because they were what they were.
Why is this endless creation, if it will perish one day, every created thing! (Faust)
No matter how isolated you lead, you are either a debtor or a creditor without even knowing it.
Do you want the compass to guide you, so protect it from the magnets next to you.
You lost your money, you lost nothing. You work, you win. You've lost your honor, you've lost a lot. But you can work and earn it too. But if you lose hope, you lose everything in life.
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
I can promise to be sincere, never neutral.
There is nothing more precious in the world than a heart open to love and passion.
Joy should have a bitter side, and pain should have a joyful side.
Every word spoken provokes the opposite.
The essential characteristic of all virtues is constant striving for ascension, warfare with oneself, an insatiable desire for greater and deeper purity, wisdom, goodness, and love.
When passions are confessed, they both increase in intensity and subside. A middle ground between what we say and what we don't say to our loved ones is perhaps more desirable in no other field.
Our passions; they are either a vice or a more severe form of a virtue.
Our passions are real phoenixes. A new one is born from the ashes of the old.
What a price the gods charge us for a song until we become that song!
You can do. Because you should!
Whatever you can do or think, start. Courage has genius, power, and magic.
Talent emerges in serenity. The character is in the storms of the world.
How fortunate is the man who, while immersed in a sea of mistakes, can wait with hope.
Rather than knowing a hundred kinds of things halfway, knowing and applying something fully raises a person better.
To live is to make a man of oneself. It is to make your own sculpture from flesh and bone using intelligence and knowledge.
In my life, I conquered the universe by the power of righteousness. (Faust)
