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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Lying

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None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like

None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lying, Believe, Eye

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lying, Self, Deceit

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.525, Delphi Classics

Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth, Lying, School

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lying, Thee, Duty

The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art, Lying, Men

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth, Lying, Errors

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lying, Ideas, Originality

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lying, Men, Wish

We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beautiful, Lying, Men

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dream, Lying, Moving

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Luke (1998). “Faust”, p.48, Oxford University Press, USA

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth, Lying, Errors

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faith, Lying, Empty

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lying, Wish, Able

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Motivational, Lying, Adversity

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stars, Lying, Moon

Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tombstone, Lying, Heart

Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stars, Lying, Flames

The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Lying, Dumb

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wise, Lying, Half

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lying, Men, Political

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

On all the peaks lies peace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Peace, Nature, Lying

Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Prayer, Lying, Past

It will be! the mass is working clearer! Conviction gathers, truer, nearer! The mystery which for Man in Nature lies We dare to test, by knowledge led; And that which she was wont to organize We crystallize, instead.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lying, Hard Work, Knowledge

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1912). “Faust”

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lying, Men, Rights

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth, Fear, Lying

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

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