Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ugh Quotations

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

We have time enough if we but use it aright

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden

One ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Willing is not enough, we must do.

In art, the best is good enough.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

If you 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.

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.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being

Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being

Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be.

Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.

Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

I laugh at my heart, and do its will

Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

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

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Poetic fire sank low in me When it was God I sought to see, But up it flamed, up to the sky, When it was Evil I had to fly

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.