Quotes Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about the...

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers....

Personality is everything in art and poetry....

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest...

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you...

Precaution is better than cure....

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can m...

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men....

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping....

Superstition is the poetry of life....

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full curre...

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

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of thei...

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourse...

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearan...

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in ...

The coward only threatens when he is safe....

The credit of advancing science has always been due to indiv...

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation....

The deed is everything, the glory is naught....

The deed is everything, the glory naught....

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chie...

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes....

The human mind will not be confined to any limits....

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the ...