More Quotes by 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.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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.
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
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.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
