Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Humanity

• Common sense is the genius of humanity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Meaningful, Common Sense, Humanity

• One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Summer, Nature, Children

• We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Humanity, Literature

• There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Years, Long, People

• Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Believe, Humanity, Fancy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.56, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty,
  Even though this world is forever altering its values.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Forever, Humanity, World

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