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Goethe Quotes and Quotations
 For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. - Goethe | Ability and Achievement Quotes  But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go. - Goethe | Advice Quotes So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover. - Goethe | Aging and Old Age Quotes I call architecture 'petrified music'. - Goethe | Architects and Architecture Quotes Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal. - Goethe | Books and Reading Quotes A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. - Goethe | Bores and Boredom Quotes Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. - Goethe | Character and Personality Quotes If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. - Goethe | Children and Childhood Quotes Unlike grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves. - Goethe | Children and Childhood Quotes We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. - Goethe | Deception Quotes From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire. - Goethe | Enjoyment and Pleasure Quotes It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. - Goethe | Friends and Friendship Quotes Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life. - Goethe | Genius Quotes We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives. - Goethe | Goals and Ambition Quotes It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero. - Goethe | Heroes and Heroism Quotes We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out; only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant. - Goethe | Human Relations Quotes If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do. - Goethe | Human Relations Quotes There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action. - Goethe | Ignorance Quotes When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place. - Goethe | Ignorance Quotes And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before. - Goethe | Ignorance Quotes He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. - Goethe | Life Quotes If a man thinks about his physical or moral state, he usually discovers that he is ill. - Goethe | Medicine and Sickness Quotes The right man is the one that seizes the moment. - Goethe | Men Quotes A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe | Mistakes and Blunders Quotes Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation. - Goethe | Music Quotes The unnatural - that too is natural. - Goethe | Nature Quotes Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing. - Goethe | Philosophy Quotes There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis. - Goethe | Politeness and Manners Quotes Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. - Goethe | Progress Quotes All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. - Goethe | Secrets and Secrecy Quotes There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable. - Goethe | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it. - Goethe | Virtue Quotes Who does not know another language, does not know his own. - Goethe | Words and Language Quotes When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place. - Goethe | Words and Language Quotes Everyone hears only what he understands. - Goethe | Words and Language Quotes Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living; and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it. - Goethe | Work Quotes We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly. - Goethe | Work Quotes Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake. - Goethe | Youth Quotes The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. - Goethe | Applause Quotes Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good. - Goethe | Beauty Quotes Nothing is worth more than this day. - Goethe | Nature Quotes Architecture is frozen music. - Goethe | Architecture Quotes Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. - Goethe | Character Quotes We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. - Goethe | Deception Quotes People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody. - Goethe | Dependence Quotes We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. - Goethe | Doubt Quotes Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer. - Goethe | Fate Quotes It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies. - Goethe | Fools Quotes I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter. - Goethe | Gift Quotes He is happiest, be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home. - Goethe | Home Quotes Life is the childhood of our immortality. - Goethe | Immortality Quotes One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides. - Goethe | Judgment Quotes A useless life is an early death. - Goethe | Life Quotes Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! - Goethe | Mammon Quotes Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. - Goethe | Poet Quotes Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. - Goethe | Science Quotes He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. - Goethe | Will Quotes Wisdom is only found in trudi. - Goethe | Wise Quotes The society of women is the foundation of good manners. - Goethe | Women Quotes We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. - Goethe | Never Quotes We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. - Goethe | Never Quotes We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. - Goethe | Never Quotes We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. - Goethe | Never Quotes We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. - Goethe | Never Quotes We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. - Goethe | Never Quotes We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. - Goethe | Never Quotes We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. - Goethe | Never Quotes 
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