Collected Meditations
Showing 202 quotesWe cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nature
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Strength
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe