Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More Quotes From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe shrinks ends ideas A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ignorant language men If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe study law men To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe taken games moving I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe minorities intelligent sides He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe branches wise attention Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe success song life I do not know everything; still many things I understand. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as 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 and could be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
