Quote

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

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
World
Chains
Bounds
Golden
Kindness
Together
Persons
Person
Chain
Might
Bound

More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image
I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Gray is the color of all theory
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night. [Ger., Und kunftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne Rings um uns her unzahlig aus der Nacht.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Everyone only hears what he understands.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe