5 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Purpose

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes on purpose

41. A useless life is an early death.

58. The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

113. How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

124. Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

139. The man is born with a talent which he has meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.