Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Moral Quotations

There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick