How can we learn to know ourselves? By reflection, never, but by our actions. Attempt to do your duty, and you will immediately find what is in you. Goethe More Quotes by Goethe More Quotes From Goethe The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries. Goethe There is nothing more pitiable in the world than an irresolute man vacillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two, and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them. Goethe We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies. Goethe We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth. Goethe We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable. Goethe We in reality only know when we doubt a little. With knowledge comes doubt. Goethe We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another. Goethe
