FAMOUS 201 QUOTES BY JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Few people have the imagination for reality.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

To create something you must be something.

Where there are no women there are no good manners.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

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

You need just what you do not know, and what you really know is worthless.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity.

Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

Talent develops in quiet, Character in the torrent of the world.