Philosophy Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else”

“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”

“Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.”

“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”

““Tell a wise person, or else keep silent,”

“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”

“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge. To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality”

“On ne peut opposer absraitement le spectacle et l'activité sociale effective.”

“Praestat angustus esse quam fractus!”

“love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.”

“Men would no longer be victims of nature or of their own largely irrational societies: reason would triumph; universal harmonious cooperation, true history, would at last begin.”

“Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.”