Quote

Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.

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
Father
Paternity
Anyhow
Conviction
Convinced
Based
Therefore
Upon

More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image
But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]
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
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Nature has neither kernel Nor shell
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
We are our own aptest deceiver.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The one who acts is always without conscience nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
What we don't understand we don't possess.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe