There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
