All JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Quotes about “Mankind”

“Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.”
“I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.”
“We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.”
“Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.”
“When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.”
“Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.”
“Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.”
“We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.”
“Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.”
“Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.”

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