11 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Ethics

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes on ethics

6. Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets hims apart From every other creature On earth.

8. A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

59. Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.

77. Law is mighty, mightier necessity.

81. The deed is everything, the glory nothing.

90. First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

93. Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tatige Unwissenheit.

104. Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

112. He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build.

114. If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

134. The deed is everything, the glory naught.