What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEvery reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEInstruction does much, but encouragement everything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA person hears only what they understand.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENothing is more dangerous than solitude.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOn top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE