Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Als Quotations

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in the epoch-making program.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.

There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]