“Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
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Famous Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
“As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.”
“In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.”
Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims
“Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.”
Source: The Works of J. W. Von Goethe
Source: Faust
“Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.”
Source: Goetz Von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand: A Drama in Five Acts
“While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.”
Source: Faust: A Tragedy
Source: Goethe on Art
Source: Goethe's Elective Affinities
Source: Words of Goethe: being the conversations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
“To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella
“If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.”
Source: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
“A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.”
“The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.”
“If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.”
“He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.”
“All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.”
“It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.”
Source: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life; Or, The Autobiography of Goethe
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann