Quotes by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. >>

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden. >>

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from >>

Quotations about Freedom

Freedom is the only law which genius knows. >>

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, a >>

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free. >>

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von