Quotes by Goethe

“Patriotism ruins history.”

“Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be.”

“Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.”

“None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.”

“To be pleased with ones limits is a wretched state.”

“The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity.”

“Each ten years of a mans life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.”

“Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.”

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

But one must know where one stands and where the others wish to go.

So lively brisk old fellow dont let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him everybody sees them.

I call architecture petrified music.

Architecture is frozen music.

Beautiful is greater than Good for it includes the Good.

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.

A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

If children grew up according to early indications we should have nothing but geniuses.