Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If one doesn’t know one’s own country, one doesn’t have standards for foreign countries.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If we put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and hatred we so often feel about them would disappear, and if we put others in our place, pride and conceit would greatly diminish.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you live criticizing people, you won’t have time to love them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet’s home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe