Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

The world remains ever the same.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

A useless life is an early death.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

The little man is still a man.

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

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.