Quote

Only law can give us freedom.

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
Freedom
Give
Giving
Law

More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image
Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Duty is the demand of the hour.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe