Psychology Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished…

— 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

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Dear me! how long is art! And short is our life! I often know amid the scholar's strife A sinking feeling in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Whatever noblest things the mind received, More and more foreign matter spoils the theme; And when the good of this world is…

— 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

“A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“So much simplicity with so much understanding — so mild, and yet so resolute — a mind so placid, and a life so active.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe