Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ends belief knowledge

We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

respect character men

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

greater doubt knowledge

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

connections nature science

Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

immortality proof change

The happy do not believe in miracles.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

believe-in-miracles miracle believe

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

motivation leadership hope

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

inspiring love philosophy

I am what I am, so take me as I am!.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

take-me-as-i-am introvert acceptance

If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

self winning heart

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

being-alone loneliness inspiration

A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.

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lovable faults men

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

law dark death

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

family inspiring children

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

opinion belief people

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

cake believe children

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

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self-worth men thinking

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

liquid frozen architecture

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

vineyards life-is-too-short wine

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

abstraction individual mankind