Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
206 quotations
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
A person hears only what they understand.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
The little man is still a man.
Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
The unnatural, that too is natural.
Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.