Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Human Nature
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It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
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Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.
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What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
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I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love
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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
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Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
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I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.
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People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.
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