FAMOUS 201 QUOTES BY JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.

Stupidity is without anxiety.

Passions are vices or virtues are highest powers.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

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

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.