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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

«Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal»
«There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.»
«Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image»
«Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants»
«Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does»
«Few people have the imagination for reality.»
«To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state»
«If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be»
«Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?»
«One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going»

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