Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
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Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.”
“Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities”
“Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.”
Source: Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims
“First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“What a man does not understand, he does not possess.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.”
“Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion”
Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art
“Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.”
“Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.”
Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
Source: Goethe on Art
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.”
“The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.”
Source: The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres, with a Sketch of Goethe's Life. By E. A. Bowring
“Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.”
“Man must strive, and striving he must err.”
Source: Faust
Source: Goethe's plays
“It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret