Moral Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe