Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ifs Quotations

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.

If you don't feel it, you'll never get it.

If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

We have time enough if we but use it aright

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.