Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Values

• Every second is of infinite value.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Helping, Infinite

• Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Infinite, Moments, Hours

• The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Learning, Experience, Practicals

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

• Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Taste, Excellent, Contemplation

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.137

• One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Character, Men

• Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Good Life, Insperational

  "Goethe's Art of Living".

• I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Achievement, Enemy, Opponents

• Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Long, Enthusiasm, Carried Away

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3538, Delphi Classics

• Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Men, Shows

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3515, Delphi Classics

• It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Students, Observation, Equal

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.173, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dwelling, Perfect, Judging

• If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  World, Want, Pleasure

• 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

• By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Artist, Interesting

• Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Religious, Arbitrary, Chance

• Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Quality, Favour

• We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Proud, Merit, Blame

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