Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Topics: Necessity Quotes

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows...

Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows...

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to...

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to...

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

The little man is still a man.

The little man is still a man.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all...

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all...

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is...

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is...

It takes a long time to become young.

It takes a long time to become young.