Quotes Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a t...

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who false...

"Know thyself?"  If I knew myself, I'd ru...

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to...

There is no surer method of evading the world than by ...

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the on...

Nothing is worth more than this day. ...

"Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individu...

"Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does"...

"Few people have the imagination for reality."...

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

"My peace is gone, my heart is heavy."...

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is;...

"Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity."...

"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what...

"Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to sh...

"In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in...

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

"He who moves not forward, goes backward"...

"I love those who yearn for the impossible."...

"Where there is much light, the shadow is deep"...

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he ...

"Tell me with whom thou art found, and I will tell thee who ...

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepar...

"Every second is of infinite value"...