Goethe Quotes
Goethe Quote of the day
When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds
Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.
I myself must also say I believe it is true that in the end humanitarianism will triumph
15"General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.
Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta
... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
Read this book ... but understand it’s fiction. And let life be ... your most important addiction.
If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.
By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn, And not in utter loneliness to live, Myself at last did to the Devil give!
