When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More Quotes From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe happiness two people Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe simple running men To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe sarcastic men funny 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 voice imagination religious Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe golden apples women Action has magic, grace and power in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe magic acting grace Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love Johann Wolfgang von Goethe saving ego way Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe generosity want giving Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe retreat faith inspirational The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources Johann Wolfgang von Goethe resources genius inspirational The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe eye night reality Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe passion men thinking Energy will do anything that can be done in this world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe energy done thinking Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe path may men How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe duty reflection action The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe life-lesson learning art Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe impatient effort understanding Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe woe chance reason Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tolerance age time I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe respect goal men
