Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
In art the best is good enough.
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.