- Character develops itself in the stream of life.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- Plunge boldly into the thick of life!... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- I love those who yearn for the impossible.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- Doubt grows with knowledge.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- For the nature of women is closely allied to art... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- To rule is easy, to govern difficult.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- If I love you, what does that matter to you!... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
- First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}