We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Topics: Famous Love Quotes, Love Quotes

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

I'm an optimist by nature and a pessimist by experience.

I'm an optimist by nature and a pessimist by experience.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the...

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the...

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches...

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches...

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

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

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

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.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive...

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive...

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of...

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of...

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can...

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can...

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.