All JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Quotes about “Belief”

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.”
“We see only what we know.”
“Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.”
“He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.”
“If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.”
“Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.”
“It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.”
“A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.”
“It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.”
“In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.”

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