Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Belief

• None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Powerful, Freedom

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.3

• Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self Esteem, Believe, Yoga

• We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Memories, Believe, Atheism

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.35, Princeton University Press

• We see only what we know.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Belief, Knows

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.7, Univ of California Press

• Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Belief, Opinion

• Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Belief, Ends

• He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  World, Belief, This World

• If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Believe, Doubt, Belief

• Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sweet, Accomplishment, Lips

• It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Book, Believe, Heart

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

• A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Learning, Men, Trying

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3588, Delphi Classics

• It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bible, Meditation, Fruit

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1824). “Memoirs of Goethe:”, p.410

• In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, People, Politics

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