Character: J. W. Goethe. Page 1

And the road to perfection is long.

Deaths and births.

I want to experience the whole lot of humanity in the depths of my self.

The woman's lot is willingness to receive services.

Little people fear reason more than anything else; if they understood what was really scary, they would be afraid of stupidity.

Let a person have so much freedom to lead a healthy lifestyle and practice his craft, and that is enough; and everyone can achieve such freedom.

Not everything that exists is divided into reason without a remainder.

Everything we do has its consequences, but this does not mean at all that what is reasonable and just leads to good consequences, and the unreasonable leads to bad, and often the other way around.

Good is conscious, evil is spontaneous; virtues give us little joy, while vices are sweet.

My works are nourished by thousands of different individuals, ignorant and wise, clever and foolish; childhood, old age - everything brought me their thoughts; I often reaped the harvest sown by others, my work is the work of a collective being, and he bears the name - Goethe.

Modesty is the lot of insignificance, and a genius need not humiliate himself with self-flagellation. Suppressing ambition in people, society leads them and itself to ruin.

I came up with a new expression that does a good job of revealing the relationship between the classic and the romantic. I call the classic healthy, and the romantic sick.

Every outstanding person is associated not only with the greatness of his time, but also with his squalor.

People will incessantly hesitate in one direction or another, and therefore one part will suffer, and the other prosper, and there will be no end to the struggle. The most reasonable thing is to stick to the cause for which you were born.