Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

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

We Usually Lose Today, Because There Has Been A Yesterday, And Tomorrow Is Coming.

Certain Defects Are Necessary For The Existence Of Individuality.

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.

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

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

Passions Are Vices Or Virtues To Their Highest Powers.

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.

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

He Is Happiest, Be He King Or Peasant, Who Finds Peace In His Home.

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.

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

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

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

A Correct Answer Is Like An Affectionate Kiss.

Everything In The World May Be Endured Except Continual Prosperity.

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

A Clever Man Commits No Minor Blunders.

I Can Tell You, Honest Friend, What To Believe: Believe Life; It Teaches Better That Book Or Orator.

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

We Don't Get To Know People When They Come To Us; We Must Go To Them To Find Out What They Are Like.

To Rule Is Easy, To Govern Difficult.

Devote Each Day To The Object Then In Time And Every Evening Will Find Something Done.

I Do Not Know Myself, And God Forbid That I Should.

If A Man Writes A Book, Let Him Set Down Only What He Knows. I Have Guesses Enough Of My Own.

Men Show Their Character In Nothing More Clearly Than What They Think Laughable.

He Is Dead In This World Who Has No Belief In Another.

Common Sense Is The Genius Of Humanity.

If You Must Tell Me Your Opinions, Tell Me What You Believe In. I Have Plenty Of Doubts Of My Own.

Unlike Grown Ups, Children Have Little Need To Deceive Themselves.

I Will Listen To Anyone's Convictions, But Pray Keep Your Doubts To Yourself.

One Must Ask Children And Birds How Cherries And Strawberries Taste.

What By A Straight Path Cannot Be Reached By Crooked Ways Is Never Won.

Objects In Pictures Should So Be Arranged As By Their Very Position To Tell Their Own Story.

If A Man Or Woman Is Born Ten Years Sooner Or Later, Their Whole Aspect And Performance Shall Be Different.

He Who Has A Task To Perform Must Know How To Take Sides, Or He Is Quite Unworthy Of It.

Be Above It! Make The World Serve Your Purpose, But Do Not Serve It.

Upon The Creatures We Have Made, We Are, Ourselves, At Last, Dependent.

No One Has Ever Learned Fully To Know Themselves.

We Always Have Time Enough, If We Will But Use It Aright.

Talent Develops In Quiet Places, Character In The Full Current Of Human Life.

Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day.

The Decline Of Literature Indicates The Decline Of A Nation.