Quote

People may live as much retired from the world as they please but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

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
Retired
Find
Dependence
Live
Sooner
Much
Aware
World
Later
Creditor
People
Please
Debtor
Somebody
Debtors
Creditors
May

More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image
I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Collectors are happy people.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe