Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.'

I've always been a very self-aware person.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

I realize I'm a mirror.

I like to think of myself as an observer.

I think I'm pretty self-aware.

Well, beauty's in the eye of the beholder... It's all subjective. I'm kind of shy about it, but I'll take it.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?

No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? That's the smile I was smiling.

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.

Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.

I find myself fascinating.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

My personality doesn't interest me.

Since I am me, I find it very difficult to judge how fascinating listening to my nasal, heavily-accented drone for two hours would be to somebody who wasn't me.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.