Famous Quotes / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
443 Quotations by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 301. The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the m ...
- 302. The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.
- 303. The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.
- 304. The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
- 305. The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
- 306. The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
- 307. The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resourc ...
- 308. The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains ...
- 309. The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
- 310. The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknow ...
- 311. The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknow ...
- 312. The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
- 313. The history of mankind is his character.
- 314. The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
- 315. The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
- 316. The little man is still a man.
- 317. The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to d ...
- 318. The man is born with a talent which he has meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
- 319. The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
- 320. The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it ...