Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
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Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
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War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.
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One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
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Every offense is avenged on earth.
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A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time.
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Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.
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The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.
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Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.
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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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The world is full of contradiction.
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
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I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.