Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Common Quotations

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

People of a vertain rank will always keep a cool distance from common people, as if they were afraid to lose their dignity by too much familiarity.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned

Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.