Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes And Sayings

The Most Happy Man Is He Who Knows How To Bring Into Relation The End And Beginning Of His Life.

Fresh Activity Is The Only Means Of Overcoming Adversity.

Thinking Is Easy, Acting Is Difficult, And To Put One's Thoughts Into Action Is The Most Difficult Thing In The World.

Live Dangerously And You Live Right.

One Can Be Instructed In Society, One Is Inspired Only In Solitude.

On All The Peaks Lies Peace.

Life Belongs To The Living, And He Who Lives Must Be Prepared For Changes.

To Witness Two Lovers Is A Spectacle For The Gods.

It Is Better To Be Deceived By One's Friends Than To Deceive Them.

Nothing Shows A Man's Character More Than What He Laughs At.

Being Brilliant Is No Great Feat If You Respect Nothing.

None Are More Hopelessly Enslaved Than Those Who Falsely Believe They Are Free.

The Mediator Of The Inexpressible Is The Work Of Art.

If You Modestly Enjoy Your Fame You Are Not Unworthy To Rank With The Holy.

We Can't Form Our Children On Our Own Concepts; We Must Take Them And Love Them As God Gives Them To Us.

Destiny Grants Us Our Wishes, But In Its Own Way, In Order To Give Us Something Beyond Our Wishes.

He Only Earns His Freedom And His Life Who Takes Them Every Day By Storm.

The Artist Alone Sees Spirits. But After He Has Told Of Their Appearing To Him, Everybody Sees Them.

Love Does Not Dominate; It Cultivates.

If You Start To Think Of Your Physical And Moral Condition, You Usually Find That You Are Sick.

The Way You See People Is The Way You Treat Them, And The Way You Treat Them Is What They Become.

The People Who Are Absent Are The Ideal; Those Who Are Present Seem To Be Quite Commonplace.

Character Is Formed In The Stormy Billows Of The World.

He Who Enjoys Doing And Enjoys What He Has Done Is Happy.

Personality Is Everything In Art And Poetry.

Do Not Give In Too Much To Feelings. A Overly Sensitive Heart Is An Unhappy Possession On This Shaky Earth.

Hatred Is Active, And Envy Passive Dislike; There Is But One Step From Envy To Hate.

Plunge Boldly Into The Thick Of Life, And Seize It Where You Will, It Is Always Interesting.

What Is Important In Life Is Life, And Not The Result Of Life.

This Is The Highest Wisdom That I Own; Freedom And Life Are Earned By Those Alone Who Conquer Them Each Day Anew.

The Human Mind Will Not Be Confined To Any Limits.

Deeply Earnest And Thoughtful People Stand On Shaky Footing With The Public.

Thinking Is More Interesting Than Knowing, But Less Interesting Than Looking.

Wisdom Is Found Only In Truth.

Be Generous With Kindly Words, Especially About Those Who Are Absent.

Ignorant Men Raise Questions That Wise Men Answered A Thousand Years Ago.

Daring Ideas Are Like Chessmen Moved Forward; They May Be Beaten, But They May Start A Winning Game.

If I Love You, What Business Is It Of Yours?

We Are Never Deceived; We Deceive Ourselves.

Doubt Grows With Knowledge.

Only By Joy And Sorrow Does A Person Know Anything About Themselves And Their Destiny. They Learn What To Do And What To Avoid.

Magic Is Believing In Yourself, If You Can Do That, You Can Make Anything Happen.

There Is Nothing Insignificant In The World. It All Depends On The Point Of View.

Every Day We Should Hear At Least One Little Song, Read One Good Poem, See One Exquisite Picture, And, If Possible, Speak A Few Sensible Words.

Error Is Acceptable As Long As We Are Young; But One Must Not Drag It Along Into Old Age.

Great Thoughts And A Pure Heart, That Is What We Should Ask From God.

No One Would Talk Much In Society If They Knew How Often They Misunderstood Others.

The Person Born With A Talent They Are Meant To Use Will Find Their Greatest Happiness In Using It.

Girls We Love For What They Are; Young Men For What They Promise To Be.

He Who Does Not Think Much Of Himself Is Much More Esteemed Than He Imagines.