Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

An unused life is an early death.

All things are only transitory.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

In art the best is good enough.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.