Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.