There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To create something you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe