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Famous Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”
“Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.”
“All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.”
“There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.”
“If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.”
“The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.”
“He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.”
“Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.”
“Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.”
“He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.”
“Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?”
“Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.”
“If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.”
“Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.”
“Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.”
“Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.”
“It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.”
“Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.”
“Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.”
“There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.”
“I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.”
“Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.”
“Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.”
“First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.”
“Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.”
“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”
“For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.”