“Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.”
More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Philosophy
“Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.”
“No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else”
“If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.”
“It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.”
“Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta”
“The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!”
“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”
“Everything transitory is but an image.”
“The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.”
“All that is transitory is but a metaphor.”
Others on Philosophy
Nietzsche
22 quotes“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“Nothing endures but change.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds...”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
T. S. Eliot
13 quotes“We have only to conquer Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.Now is the triumph of the cross.”