Quote

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

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
Men
Commoners
Assured
Welfare
Fortunate
King
Kings
Whose
Home
Commoner

More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image
What we don't understand we don't possess.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The world is full of contradiction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The world remains ever the same.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Wind is the loving Wooer of waters Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe