Goethe quotes, wonderful! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (showing 1-30 of 855) “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: inspiration 2657 likes Like “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement 2534 likes Like “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: inspirational 2041 likes Like “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: chess, daring, ideas 1685 likes Like “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: art, beauty, music, wonder 1650 likes Like “I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1259 likes Like “We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: insanity 911 likes Like “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: First Part tags: conduct-of-life, life, self-confidence, self-trust 901 likes Like “If I love you, what business is it of yours?” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: business, love 860 likes Like “I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 857 likes Like “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works tags: bigotry, ignorance, life, prejudice 648 likes Like “If youve never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: crying, life, reality 647 likes Like “You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: character, misattributed, nobility 614 likes Like “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: First Part 552 likes Like “To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 524 likes Like “Know thyself? If I knew myself, Id run away.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: philosophy 484 likes Like “Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein. None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities tags: bounds, enslavement, error, false-belief, freedom, freedom-of-thought, imprisonment 461 likes Like “Nothing shows a mans character more than what he laughs at.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 427 likes Like “By seeking and blundering we learn.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: education, experience, learning-from-mistakes 403 likes Like “A person hears only what they understand.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 388 likes Like “Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: change, life 381 likes Like “Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: attitude, perspective 378 likes Like “The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther tags: fear, freedom, meaning-of-life, psychology, purpose-of-life, work 374 likes Like “Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: character, inspirational 365 likes Like “There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 363 likes Like “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: priorities 362 likes Like “Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: magic 345 likes Like “I love those who yearn for the impossible.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 328 likes Like “The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tags: community, connection, friendship, goethe, inspirational, love 303 likes Like “Nothing is worth more than this day.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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