Quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

A world without love would be no world.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine

Doubt grows with knowledge.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.