The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by 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
