Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe