What is not fully understood is not possessed. Johann von Goethe More Quotes by Johann von Goethe More Quotes From Johann von Goethe Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. Johann von Goethe Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. Johann von Goethe 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 von Goethe The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. Johann von Goethe The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. Johann von Goethe The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. Johann von Goethe The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. Johann von Goethe The man of understanding finds everything laughable. Johann von Goethe The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks. Johann von Goethe The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before. Johann von Goethe The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. Johann von Goethe The society of women is the element of good manners. Johann von Goethe The unnatural, that too is natural. Johann von Goethe There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. Johann von Goethe Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. Johann von Goethe Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. Johann von Goethe To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him. Johann von Goethe To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law. Johann von Goethe Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. Johann von Goethe Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. Johann von Goethe
