More Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
