Quote

Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
Aphorist
Art Critic
Art Theorist
Autobiographer
Botanist
Composer
Diarist
Diplomat
Jurist
Lawyer
Librarian
Librettist
Literary
Frankfurt/Main
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Goethe
goethe
johann wolfgang von goethe
joh. wolfg. von goethe
j. w. von goethe
Lasts
Last
Happy
War
Wars
Many
Unhappy
Make
None
Modern
Politics

More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image
The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
My inheritance how lordly wide and fair Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
When I say to the Moment flying 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
As a man is, so is his God therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
All perishable is but an allegory.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe