Selected quotes · 51
№ 01
“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaith
№ 02
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFreedom
№ 03
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSuccess
№ 04
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLove
№ 05
“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLove
№ 06
“Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLove
№ 07
“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWisdom
№ 08
“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMindset
№ 09
“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCreativity
№ 10
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSuccess
№ 11
“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWisdom
№ 12
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLife
№ 13
“One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFreedom
№ 14
“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAction
№ 15
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFreedom
№ 16
“The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHappiness
№ 17
“The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHappiness
№ 18
“We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTime
№ 19
“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.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNature
№ 20
“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTime
№ 21
“Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHappiness
№ 22
“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHappiness
№ 23
“In art the best is good enough.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCreativity
№ 24
“Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWisdom
№ 25
“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePhilosophy
№ 26
“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLove
№ 27
“The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWisdom
№ 28
“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGrowth
№ 29
“The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaith
№ 30
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLove
№ 31
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFreedom
№ 32
“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCreativity
№ 33
“Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheResilience
№ 34
“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLife
№ 35
“Personality is everything in art and poetry.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAction
№ 36
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFreedom
№ 37
“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCreativity
№ 38
“Age merely shows what children we remain.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWisdom
№ 39
“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJustice
№ 40
“Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWisdom
№ 41
“Life is the childhood of our immortality.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLife
№ 42
“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGrowth
№ 43
“Wisdom is found only in truth.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJustice
№ 44
“A useless life is an early death.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLife
№ 45
“It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCourage
№ 46
“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWisdom
№ 47
“It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCourage
№ 48
“Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWisdom
№ 49
“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFreedom
№ 50
“In all things it is better to hope than to despair”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWisdom
№ 51
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaith