Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Individual Quotations

Individuality seems to be Nature's whole aim -- and she cares nothing for individuals.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.