The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The little man is still a man.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The unnatural, that too is natural.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world remains ever the same.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe