Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

• Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The world remains ever the same.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The unnatural, that too is natural.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The little man is still a man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (262)

Birth:	28th August, 1749
Death:	22nd March, 1832
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Politician

About

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was a German poet, novelist, philosopher, playwright, and politician. He wrote several plays include: Götz von Berlichingen, Clavigo, Stella, Iphigenia in Tauris, Egmont, Torquato Tasso, The Citizen General, The Natural Daughter, and Faust. He wrote several poems include: The King in Thule, Welcome and Farewell, Erlkönig, Prometheus, Roman Elegies, Hermann and Dorothea, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and Marienbad Elegy. He wrote several novels include: The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Elective Affinities, and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years.

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