People Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Collectors are happy people.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The people rate strength before everything.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One spares old people just as one spares children.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Few people have the imagination for reality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with…

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe