Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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