Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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

Never in any circumstance Let them to induce you to refute. Wise men fall into ignorance When with the ignorant they dispute.

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

While man’s desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

If you would create something, you must be something.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.