Author Topic: ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes ~ (Read 7387 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #105 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:27:25 AM »

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

MysteRy · « **Reply #106 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:28:14 AM »

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #107 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:30:20 AM »

Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

MysteRy · « **Reply #108 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:30:54 AM »

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #109 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:31:34 AM »

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

MysteRy · « **Reply #110 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:32:30 AM »

Love is an ideal thing marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

MysteRy · « **Reply #111 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:33:12 AM »

Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

MysteRy · « **Reply #112 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:33:47 AM »

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him and that all merely exists for his sake.

MysteRy · « **Reply #113 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:34:25 AM »

Thou must (in commanding and winning or serving and losing suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

MysteRy · « **Reply #114 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:34:58 AM »

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.

MysteRy · « **Reply #115 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:35:32 AM »

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it and others do just the same with their time.

MysteRy · « **Reply #116 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:36:06 AM »

Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.

MysteRy · « **Reply #117 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:36:38 AM »

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy even as though it were his own.

MysteRy · « **Reply #118 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:37:18 AM »

Music in the best sense does not require novelty; no the older it is and the more we are accustomed to it the greater its effect.

MysteRy · « **Reply #119 on:** December 19, 2014, 11:37:57 AM »

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.

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