126 Quotes By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

---

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on best

If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on business

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on change

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on change

A useless life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on death

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on death

An unused life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on death

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on dreams

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on famous

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on fear

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on freedom

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on freedom

We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on god

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on god

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on god

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on god

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on god

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on good

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on good

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on good