Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Justice

• A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Justice, Judging, Criminals

• Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Justice, Diversity

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

• Every offense is avenged on earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Justice, Earth, Offense

• One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Justice, Sides

• A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Justice, Done, May

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.132, Ravenio Books

• Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is just two times two, and that is what we call four for short. But four is nothing new at all. And thus it goes on and on in its conclusions, except that in the higher formulas the identity fades out of sight.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Math, Two, Sight

• We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Flower, Yield

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