Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mankind Quotations

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

The history of mankind is his character.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

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