" Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, O Magazine, April 2003 German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" What is not fully understood is not possessed. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. "

Goethe

" A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it;
boldness has genius, power and magic in it. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" 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 German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" Live dangerously and you live right. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (1806) German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" Whenever I hear people talking about “liberal ideas,” I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us — this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. "

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

" More light! Give me more light! "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" 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 German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

" Noble be man,
Helpful and good!
For that alone
Sets him apart
From every other creature
On earth. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), from The Divine, 1783

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