None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross. – 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
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe