Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
-
-
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Everything transitory is but an image.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
There 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 GOETHE -
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE