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Famous Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
“Man must strive, and striving he must err.”
“The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.”
“It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.”
“The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.”
“Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.”
“Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.”
“Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.”
“It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.”
“A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.”
“Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.”
“At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.”
“Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.”
“Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.”
“Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.”
“If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.”
“What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!”
“He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.”
“All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.”