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Quotations By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Beliefs
Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge.

Beliefs
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Change
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Change
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Conquer
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

Cowardice
The coward only threatens when he is safe.

Danger
Live dangerously and you live right.

Death
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Deceit
We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves.

Duty
But what is your duty? What the day demands.

Education
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man almost nothing.

Eternity
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Eternity
Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Growth
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Happiness
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Identity
Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image.

Intelligence
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life
Life is the childhood of our immortality. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Literature
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Love
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Love
You don’t love if you don’t take the beloved’s faults for virtues.

Sorrow
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Success
Man errs as long as he strives.

Success
Men are so constituted that everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Time
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Truth
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.