Quote

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

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
Delight
Alive
Others
Really
Good
Men
Delights

More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image
Where there are no women there are no good manners
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Idea and experience will never coincide in the center only through art and action are they united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us we must go to them to find out what they are like.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise, we harden.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Let us live, while we are alive!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.
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
Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure whatever she commands, do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe