The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTo the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMagic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMen show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLet everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheScience arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheObjects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheUnlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAll the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCharacter, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOne must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhere is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFirst and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe