Identity Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You are, when all is done-just what you are.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four,…

— 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

Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe