Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Emotions

• All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Marriage, Being Yourself

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1949). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”

• The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Emotional, Feelings, Realms

• Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hate, War, Hatred

• The fine emotions whence our lives we mold
  Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Lying, Dumb

• I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Hate, Giving

  BookCaps, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.18, BookCaps Study Guides

• Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Passion, May

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.276

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