Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes

“Nothing is worth more than this day.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All things are only transitory.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Life is the childhood of our immortality.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Mastery passes often for egotism.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We will burn that bridge when we come to it.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The deed is everything, the glory is naught.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe