Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Human Nature

• Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Smile, Laughter

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspiring, Marriage

• I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Travel, Quality

• It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fitness, Relaxation, Human Nature

• I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Men, Errors

  Conversations with Goethe 15 October (1825)

• What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Integrity, Mirrors, Hypocrisy

• People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Running, Equality, Long

• What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Human Nature, Ifs

• Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Perfect, Might, Human Nature

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.81, Ravenio Books

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