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 More light! Give me more light! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stands on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Trust yourself, then you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe view nothing point-of-view world Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe