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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1749-1832] German

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Poet (with poems), Writer

Epic, Freemasons, National, Pantheism, Philosophy, Romanticism, Slavery, Sturm und Drang

Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels.

Art, Alone, Inspirational, Life, Wisdom, Beauty, Freedom, Happiness, Imagination, Knowledge, Poetry, Age, Best, Change, Death, Government, Home, Love, Men, Nature, Peace, Society, Architecture, Brainy, Business, Dreams, Famous, Fear, God, Good, Great, Hope, Intelligence, Money, Motivational, Music, Parenting, Positive, Power, Relationship, Religion, Respect, Science, Strength, Sympathy, Trust, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.	Positive	101
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.	Alone, Beauty	102
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.	Motivational	103
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.		104
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.	Art	105
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.	Love	106
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.	Wisdom	107
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.	Alone, Freedom, Life, Wisdom	108
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.		109
Every step of life shows much caution is required.		110
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.		111
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.	Art	112
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.	Beauty	113
In art the best is good enough.	Art, Best, Good	114
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.		115
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.	Home, Peace	116
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.	Government	117
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.	Nature	118
Nothing is worth more than this day.	Inspirational	119
I call architecture frozen music.	Architecture, Music	120
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.		121
Character develops itself in the stream of life.	Life	122
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.	Dreams, Men, Power	123
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.		124
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.	Great, Happiness	125
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.	Trust	126
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.		201
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.	Hope, Parenting	202
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.		203
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.		204
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.		205
Love can do much, but duty more.		206
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.		207
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.	Men	208
Every spoken word arouses our self-will.		209
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.	Life	210
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.		211
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.	Best, Government	212
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.		213
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.		214
I love those who yearn for the impossible.	Inspirational	215
There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.		216
If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.		217
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.	Home	218
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.		219
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.	God	220
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.	Knowledge	221
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.	Money	222
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.		223
Precaution is better than cure.		224
The coward only threatens when he is safe.		225
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.	Inspirational	226
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.		301
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.		302
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.		303
Live dangerously and you live right.		304
On all the peaks lies peace.	Peace	305
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.	Society	306
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.	Change	307
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.		308
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.		309
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.	Respect	310
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.	Freedom	311
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.	Art	312
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.		313
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.		314
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.		315
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.	Alone	316
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.	Freedom	317
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.		318
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.	Love	319
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.		320
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.		321
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.		322
Personality is everything in art and poetry.	Art, Poetry	323
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.		324
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.		325
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.		326
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.	Life	401
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.		402
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.		403
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.	Brainy	404
Wisdom is found only in truth.	Truth, Wisdom	405
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.		406
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.	Wisdom	407
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.		408
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.		409
If I love you, what business is it of yours?	Business	410
Doubt grows with knowledge.	Knowledge	411
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.	Sympathy	412
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.	Inspirational	413
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.		414
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.	Age	415
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.		416
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.	Happiness	417
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.	Society	418
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.	Relationship	419
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.	Beauty	420
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.	Imagination	421
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.		422
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.		423
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.	Intelligence	424
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.		425
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.		426
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.	Alone	501
The world remains ever the same.		502
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.		503
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.		504
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.		505
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.		506
A useless life is an early death.	Death	507
The unnatural, that too is natural.		508
Superstition is the poetry of life.	Poetry	509
To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.		510
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.		511
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.		512
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.		513
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.	Death	514
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.		515
Life is the childhood of our immortality.		516
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.		517
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.		518
Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.		519
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.		520
All things are only transitory.	Change	521
Age merely shows what children we remain.	Age	522
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.		523
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.	Knowledge	524
Mastery passes often for egotism.		525
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.	Happiness	526
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.		601
A person hears only what they understand.		602
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.		603
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.		604
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.		605
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.		606
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.	Nature	607
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.		608
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.		609
Few people have the imagination for reality.	Imagination	610
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.		611
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.	Imagination	612
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.		613
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.		614
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.		615
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.		616
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.	Religion	617
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.		618
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.		619
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.	Fear	620
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.		621
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.		622
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.		623
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.		624
The little man is still a man.		625
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.		626
Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.		701
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.	Poetry, Science	702
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?	Strength	703
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.		704
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.		705
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.		706
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.		707
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.		708
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.		709
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.		710
A clever man commits no minor blunders.		711
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.		712
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.		713
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.		714
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.		715
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.		716
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.		717
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.		718
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.		719
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.		720
Common sense is the genius of humanity.		721
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.		722
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.		723
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.		724
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.		725
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.		726
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.		801
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.		802
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.		803
No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.		804
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.		805
We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.		806
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.		807
An unused life is an early death.		808
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.	Famous	809
The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.		810
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.		811
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.		812
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.		813
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.		814
To create something you must be something.		815
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.		816
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.		817
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.		818
That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!		819

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