What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?
("Faust")
More Quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
He values my understanding and talents more highly than my heart, but I am proud of the latter only. It is the sole source of everything of our strength, happiness, and misery. All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Take life too seriously, and what is it worth If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hopes of new pleasures, is it worth while to dress and undress Does the sun shine on me today that I may reflect on yesterday That I may endeavor to foresee and control what can neither be foreseen nor controlled the destiny of tomorrow.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Of all thieves fools are the worst they rob you of time and temper.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Stupidity is without anxiety.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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