Quotes by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Common sense is the genius of humanity. >>

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth >>

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. >>

Quotations about Past

Look back, and smile at perils past. >>

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients th >>

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. >>

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von