Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
+24If you would create something, you must be something.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
+14Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+6Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
+5Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+4If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+3Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1It is delightful to transport one’s self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1A useless life is an early death.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1Patriotism ruins history.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1The deed is everything, the glory naught.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1Habit is a man’s sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of douts of my own.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
+1What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
0All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
0When two people are really happy about one another, one can generally assume that they are mistaken.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
0He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
0This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day a new.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
0We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
0Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
