Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pin Quotations

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Every second is of infinite value.

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty

has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in the epoch-making program.

As our inclinations, so our opinions.

True happiness springs from moderation.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

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.

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, who never sat the sorrowful nights weeping on his bed, he knows you not, you heavenly Powers.

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home

The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

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.

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.