Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 48

• He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doe, Language, Knows

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• Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Opportunity, Buttons, Firsts

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• I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mean, Decision, Wish

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.461, Delphi Classics

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• What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom.
  [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Spirit, Bosoms

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• Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Beautiful, Flower

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• I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Believe, Evil, Triumph

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.73, Ravenio Books

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• There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Rights, May, Chance

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• It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Age, World

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• That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  What Matters, Excellence, Accomplish

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• The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Light, Color

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• For precisely when concepts fail one,
  Words are found at the right time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Failing, Found, Right Time

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• Mastery is proven only in limitation,
  and law alone can give us freedom.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Law, Giving, Mastery

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• If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Standards, Knows

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• The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Positive, Patience

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• Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element.
  Time is itself an element.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Elements, Dies

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• The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Strikes, Familiar

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• If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Christian, Jesus, Earth

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• The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Flower, Illusion, Fade Away

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.38, Princeton University Press

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• 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

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• The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Religion, Atheism

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• Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Agriculture, Sowing, Farming

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• Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Philosophy, Rights

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• Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Revealing, Mankind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.211, Ravenio Books

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• On all the peaks lies peace.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Peace, Nature, Lying

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• What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “The Essential Goethe”, p.88, Princeton University Press

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