The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Johann von Goethe
The phrases that men hear or repeat cont…
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Johann von Goethe
The society of women is the element of g…
The society of women is the element of good manners.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Johann von Goethe
The unnatural, that too is natural….
The unnatural, that too is natural.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Johann von Goethe
The world is so empty if one thinks only…
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit – this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Johann von Goethe
There is a courtesy of the heart it is a…
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Johann von Goethe
There is nothing more frightful than ign…
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Johann von Goethe
Things which matter most must never be a…
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Johann von Goethe
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, a…
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Johann von Goethe
To be loved for what one is, is the grea…
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Johann von Goethe