Johann Wolfgang von Gogh Goethe quotes

" None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. " # Writers and Writing # Freedom # Belief

" Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away. " # Self-knowledge

" It's not that age brings childhood back again, age merely shows what children we remain. " # Age and Aging # Children # Life and Living

" To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. " # Possibilities

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

" One has only to grow older to become more tolerant. I see no fault that I might not have committed myself. " # Faults # Age and Aging # Tolerance

" The spirits that I summoned up I now can't rid myself of. " # Politicians and Politics

" Doubt grows with knowledge. " # Knowledge

" A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. " # Portraits # Manners # Painters and Painting

" Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. " # Destiny