Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes And Sayings

Whatever You Cannot Understand, You Cannot Possess.

All Things Are Only Transitory.

Age Merely Shows What Children We Remain.

A Creation Of Importance Can Only Be Produced When Its Author Isolates Himself, It Is A Child Of Solitude.

What Is Not Started Today Is Never Finished Tomorrow.

Mastery Passes Often For Egotism.

We Know Accurately Only When We Know Little, With Knowledge Doubt Increases.

Happiness Is A Ball After Which We Run Wherever It Rolls, And We Push It With Our Feet When It Stops.

There Is Nothing In The World More Shameful Than Establishing One's Self On Lies And Fables.

A Person Hears Only What They Understand.

Every Person Above The Ordinary Has A Certain Mission That They Are Called To Fulfill.

Nothing Is To Be Rated Higher Than The Value Of The Day.

Self-knowledge Comes From Knowing Other Men.

Nature Knows No Pause In Progress And Development, And Attaches Her Curse On All Inaction.

We Are Never Further From What We Wish Than When We Believe That We Have What We Wished For.

Music Is Either Sacred Or Secular. The Sacred Agrees With Its Dignity, And Here Has Its Greatest Effect On Life, An Effect That Remains The Same Through All Ages And Epochs. Secular Music Should Be Cheerful Throughout.

To The Person With A Firm Purpose All Men And Things Are Servants.

Few People Have The Imagination For Reality.

There Is Nothing In Which People More Betray Their Character Than In What They Laugh At.

One Always Has Time Enough, If One Will Apply It Well.

Nothing Is More Fearful Than Imagination Without Taste.

The Deed Is Everything, The Glory Is Naught.

A Noble Person Attracts Noble People, And Knows How To Hold On To Them.

Let Everyone Sweep In Front Of His Own Door, And The Whole World Will Be Clean.

Character, In Great And Little Things, Means Carrying Through What You Feel Able To Do.

The Christian Religion, Though Scattered And Abroad Will In The End Gather Itself Together At The Foot Of The Cross.

Every Spoken Word Arouses Our Self-will.

Who Is The Most Sensible Person? The One Who Finds What Is To Their Own Advantage In All That Happens To Them.

Certain Defects Are Necessary For The Existence Of Individuality.

It Is The Strange Fate Of Man, That Even In The Greatest Of Evils The Fear Of The Worst Continues To Haunt Him.

It Seems To Never Occur To Fools That Merit And Good Fortune Are Closely United.

Hatred Is Something Peculiar. You Will Always Find It Strongest And Most Violent Where There Is The Lowest Degree Of Culture.

Passions Are Vices Or Virtues To Their Highest Powers.

Those Who Hope For No Other Life Are Dead Even For This.

The Little Man Is Still A Man.

Sowing Is Not As Difficult As Reaping.

Who Is The Wisest Man? He Who Neither Knows Or Wishes For Anything Else Than What Happens.

Science Arose From Poetry... When Times Change The Two Can Meet Again On A Higher Level As Friends.

All Theory, Dear Friend, Is Gray, But The Golden Tree Of Life Springs Ever Green.

Where Is The Man Who Has The Strength To Be True, And To Show Himself As He Is?

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.

Piety Is Not A Goal But A Means To Attain Through The Purest Peace Of Mind The Highest Culture.

Which Government Is The Best? The One That Teaches Us To Govern Ourselves.

Everything In The World May Be Endured Except Continual Prosperity.

A Correct Answer Is Like An Affectionate Kiss.

I Think That I Am Better Than The People Who Are Trying To Reform Me.

A Clever Man Commits No Minor Blunders.

One Cannot Develop Taste From What Is Of Average Quality But Only From The Very Best.

Every Author In Some Way Portrays Himself In His Works, Even If It Be Against His Will.

There Is A Courtesy Of The Heart; It Is Allied To Love. From Its Springs The Purest Courtesy In The Outward Behavior.