Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The people rate strength before everything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The solution of every problem is another problem.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The spirits that I summoned up I now can’t rid myself of.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world is full of contradiction.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe