We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhen scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHe who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETwo souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWho is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEverything transitory is but an image.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDoubt can only be removed by action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELife belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBe above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEYou can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBeauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE