Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Universe

• We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Crazy, Personality, Insanity

• At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Commitment, Moments, Universe

• 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

• If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Winning, Self

• When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Men, Essence

• Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Men, Limits

• The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fashion, Evil, Decision

• The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Experience, Limits, Fields

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3536, Delphi Classics

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