586 ordspråk av Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it
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I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine - and even, alas! Theology - from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.
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If a man makes continuous efforts, we can save him.
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If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
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If any wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that
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