Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Religion

• A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

• He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Science, Religion

• Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Memories, Should Have, Religion

• To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Atheist, Religion, Harmony

• Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Religion, Looks, Lessons

• If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Gay

• Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fashion, Religion, Enough

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

• If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Garden, Religion, Want

• He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Science, Religion

• Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Religion, Want

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.76

• True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Humility, Suffering And Death, Religion

• If you have science and art,
  You also have religion;
  But if you don't have them,
  You better have religion.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Science, Religion

• The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Religion, Atheism

• Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Heaven, Religion

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