Quote

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

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
Rights
Peers
Age
Honored
Never
Judged
Men
Precious
Childhood
Among
Lose
Loses
Indulged

More quotes by 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
Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Mastery is often taken for egotism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
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
Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe