Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Live dangerously and you live right.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

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

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

On all the peaks lies peace.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

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.

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.

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

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

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.