The Best Johann Goethe quotes

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.] — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Don’t give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Come my little one, and give me your hand. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one’s own potentialities. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Only law can give us freedom. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Don’t say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You’ll never catch up with a mere hope. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Give shape, artist! don’t talk! Your poem be but a breath. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Let there be truth between us. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One must keep repeating the Truth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wisdom is only found in truth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.] — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A great artist… must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don’t know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We don’t get to know anything but what we love. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I love those who yearn for the impossible. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Hatred is partial, but love is still more so. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Love can do much, but duty more. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A world without love would be no world. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You don’t love if you don’t take the beloved’s faults for virtues. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He who can not learn to love must flatter. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Self–love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A useless life is an early death. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life is the childhood of our immortality. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Superstition is part of the poetry of life. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Night is the other half of life, and the better half. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life’s objective is life itself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One lives but once in the world. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Plunge boldly into the thick of life! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life is but a preparation for what there is to come. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Death is Nature’s expert advice to get plenty of Life. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The aim of living is life itself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In the colored reflection we have Life. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The world is full of contradiction. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The best pleasures of this world are not quite true. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The world remains ever the same. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I laugh at my heart, and do its will. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Only the heart without a stain knows ease. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.] — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one’s while a man to be. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nature is the living, visible garment of God. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.] — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For that is love’s nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe