Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes

“No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“An unused life is an early death.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Live dangerously and you live right.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Love can do much, but duty more.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In art the best is good enough.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Age merely shows what children we remain.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Every spoken word arouses our self-will.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“On all the peaks lies peace.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Precaution is better than cure.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The little man is still a man.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The unnatural, that too is natural.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The world remains ever the same.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To create something you must be something.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe