You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same:… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All rights and laws are still transmitted, Like an eternal sickness to the race. [Ger., Es erben sich Gesetz and Rechte Wie… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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