7 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Society

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes on society

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.

78. Once a man's thirty, he's already old, He is indeed as good as dead. It's best to kill him right away.

93. Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tatige Unwissenheit.

109. Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.

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131. Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

138. The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

147. We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.